AGA: AGA-V1 Documentation

The complete AGA-V1 distribition can be downloaded as a gzipped tarball (agav1.tgz)

A PDF version of this documentation can be downloaded here.

Authors:: Ary Rodriguez-Gonzalez & Alejandro Esquivel

Introduction

This is the distribution and documentation web-page for the AGA-V1 code, an implementation of the Asexual Genetic Algorithm (AGA), presented in:
"A simple algorithm for optimization and model fitting: AGA (asexual genetic algorithm)"
Cantó, J.; Curiel, S.; Martínez-Gómez, E.2009, Astronomy and Astrophysics, 501, 1259.
(ADS link).

An application of the code and a detailed descripion can be found in the following paper:
"Multi-component analysis f position-velocity cubes of the HH34 jet"
A. Rodríguez-González, A. Esquivel, A.C. Raga, J. Cantó, A. Riera, S. Curiel, T.L. Beck, 2011, Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica, submitted.
Download preprint in PDF format.

The distribution of the AGA-V1 code contains the folllowing files (the complete doccumentation can be obtained following the tabs on the top of the page):

release.notes

AGA-V1 is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

requirements

Fortran 90/95 compiler with C preprocessor, Message Passing Interface (optional, if enabled paralelization to compute the uncertainties), gmake.