Robert L. Kurucz

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
60 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

Telephone 617-495-7429
Fax 617-495-7049
Email RKURUCZ@CFA.HARVARD.EDU

This is a combined Web/outgoing-FTP site, KURUCZ.HARVARD.EDU or 
CFAKU5.CFA.HARVARD.EDU.  It provides up-to-date public access to
my data and programs.  These are the same programs and files that 
I use in my research.  Many bugs and problems have been corrected 
but there are still many more errors remaining to be found.  
Programs and data that I would not use myself because they are still 
under development are not on this computer.  Many of the files are 
large and are also available on CDs or DVDs, and I am willing to 
write DVDs on demand.  Some files taken from Kurucz CD-ROMs 1-26 are 
given for historical checks although many have been replaced by new 
versions.  Binary versions will eventually be replaced by (much 
larger) ASCII versions.  I am willing to rewrite them in ASCII on
demand.  Neither the programs nor data are "black boxes".  You 
should not be using them if you do not have some understanding 
of the physics and of the programming in the source code.

Table of Contents

  1. News
  2. Vita and Bibliography
  3. Papers
  4. Atoms
  5. Molecules
  6. Linelists
  7. Opacities
  8. Grids of model atmospheres
  9. Sun
  10. Stars
  11. Programs
  12. CD-ROMs
  13. Temporary files

There are more data than anonymous FTP can digest. Instead there is a user account with username GUEST and password CFAGUEST that can be accessed by FTP and TELNET. Simple OpenVMS commands like "TYPE file", "SEARCH file string", and "HELP" will work. The directories [NEWS], [VITABIB], [PAPERS], [ATOMS], [MOLECULES], [LINELISTS], [PROGRAMS], and [CDROMS] are on disk KU5E. [OPACITIES],[GRIDS] ,[SUN], and [STARS], are on KU5D, [TEMP] is on KU5C. and other directories and disks may be added. FTP does not execute the login so the logical names are not defined, but TELNET does. To go to a new directory "SET DEFAULT [name]". Case does not matter.