32-bit Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) users can now have the latest bleeding-edge PHOEBE installed through the package repository. To activate, add the following two lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://phoebe.fiz.uni-lj.si/debs jaunty main
deb-src http://phoebe.fiz.uni-lj.si/debs jaunty main


Import the authentication key:

To authenticate the origin of binary packages that you install on your computer, all packages are gpg-signed. Issue the following to import the authentication key:

gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv B6F22FBC
gpg --export --armor B6F22FBC | sudo apt-key add -

Rescan your package list:

sudo apt-get update


Install phoebe-gui and/or phoebe-scripter and you will have the latest SVN snapshot of the precompiled binaries.

WARNING: these are bleeding-edge binaries compiled automatically from the latest SVN snapshot, and come with no assurance to work correctly or, for that matter, to even work. Please exercise caution when using them.

Artificial Intelligence Approach to the Determination of Physical Properties of Eclipsing Binaries: The EBAI Project In the time of fully automated sky surveys that produce terabytes of data at incredible rates, modeling engines must evolve accordingly. Our attempt to address this challenge is to resort to artificial intelligence, namely back-propagating neural networks. The EBAI project is introduced in Prša et al. (2008), ApJ 687, 542. For more information please click your way to EBAI homepage: http://www.eclipsingbinaries.org. For a brief overview of EBAI, there is a short story on Sky & Telescope web pages.

EBAI source code, along with the polyfit pre-processor, are released under GNU GPL and are available for immediate download from the Plugins and extensions page.