BeAR Documentation

Welcome to BeAR!

On this page you find the documentation for BeAR, the Bern Atmospheric Retrieval code. If you find any new errors or inaccuracies, please send them to daniel.kitzmann@unibe.ch .

• Overview
• Licence
• Installation
  • Obtaining the code
  • Prerequisites
  • Configuration and compilation with CMake
• Opacity data
  • Global wavenumber grid
  • Opacity data for a specific species
  • Opacities included in BeAR
  • Choosing opacity sources in forward models
• Observations
  • Supported observational types
  • Spectroscopy
  • Band Spectroscopy
  • Photometry
  • Instrument Line Profile
  • Filter transmission function
• Forward Models
  • Model postprocessing
  • Flat line
  • Transmission spectrum
  • Secondary eclipse spectrum
  • Secondary eclipse spectrum with planetary blackbody
  • Emission spectrum
• Prior distributions
  • Prior distributions units
  • Prior distributions file
  • Order of prior distributions
• Setting up and starting a retrieval
  • Configuration files
  • Output files
• Temperature profiles
  • Milne’s solution
  • Guillot profile
  • Isoprofiles
  • Piecewise polynomials
  • Cubic b splines
• Chemistry Models
  • Isoprofiles
  • Isoprofiles with centred-log-ratio priors
  • Piecewise polynomials
  • Cubic b splines
  • Equilibrium chemistry
  • Background species
  • Mixing different chemistry models
  • Chemical species list
• Cloud Models
  • Grey Cloud Model
  • Kitzmann & Heng Non-Grey Cloud Model
  • Power-Law Cloud Model
  • Mixing different cloud models
• Stellar spectra
  • Blackbody spectra
  • Tabulated stellar spectrum
  • Grid of tabulated stellar spectra
• Parametrisations of vertical profiles
  • Isoprofiles
  • Piecewise polynomials
  • Cubic b splines