teb: Temperatures for Eclipsing Binary stars

teb is a Python package that calculates fundamental effective temperatures for solar-type stars in eclipsing binary systems using photometry, Gaia parallax and radii. The full method is described in Miller, Maxted & Smalley (2020).

Installation

Clone the repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/nmiller95/teb.git

Then use pip to install the requirements.txt file

$ python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

teb was developed in Python 3.7.

Usage

Set up the configuration yaml files with your parameters then run the main script.

$ python3 teb.py -c <configfile> -p <photometryfile> -f <frpfile>

To save the command line output to a log file for longer runs, use

$ nohup python3 teb.py -c <configfile> -p <photometryfile> -f <frpfile> > & output.log &

You can make an empty set of configuration files using the command

$ python3 teb.py -m <newfile>

Full details of the usage can be found with the help command

$ python3 teb.py --help

A note on stellar models

Two sources of model SED are supported in teb.

• BT-Settl
  • Detailed logg-Teff coverage
  • Asplund et al (2009) abundances
  • [M/H] from 0.5 to -4.0 supported
• BT-Settl-CIFIST
  • Detailed logg-Teff coverage
  • Caffau et al (2011) abundances
  • Only [M/H] = 0.0 supported

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.