Latest stable distribution V.1.B: fadov1b.tar.gz.
Latest manual for distribution V.1.B: manual v1b.

FADO is a novel and innovative spectral population synthesis code having the currently unique capability of self-consistently fitting nebular and stellar emission. All distribution packages can be found at http://spectralsynthesis.org/fado-downloads.html. For a more detailed description see here.

Please use the latest distribution package (FADO V.1.B; released on 02/10/2018), which integrates several improvements and minor bug fixes (see revision history).

The binary of this distribution was compiled under OpenSuSE Leap 42.3 64bit LINUX with gcc version 4.8.5 (SUSE Linux) and should be compatible with most LINUX distributions. If you need other binary compilations, please access FADO downloads or send a message to Jean Michel Gomes.

The distribution package also contains two explanatory ascii files (ReadMe and Read_F), configuration files (FADO.config and PLOT.config), as well as the "Simple Stellar Population" (SSP) base library with the base file list Base.BC03.L. For testing purposes, the distribution package includes three characteristic de-redshifted spectra from SDSS-DR7 in ascii format, corresponding to a star-forming (spec1.txt), composite (spec2.txt) and LINER (spec3.txt) galaxy. Auxiliary files needed for execution of FADO (.HIfbound_em.ascii, .HeII_fbound.ascii, .HeIfboundem.ascii, grfont.dat and grfont.txt) are also included in the tarball. By decompressing the tarball the following six directories are created: input, output, plots, ReadMe, SSPs and tables.

You can find the FADO-SDSS full spectral fitting galaxy catalogue at http://www.iastro.pt/research/tools/fadoSDSS.html.

Description
FADO V.1.B distribution package contains two different ascii files, ReadMe and Read_F, and one tarball archive fadov1b.tar.gz. fadov1b.tar.gz contains the binary (executable) compiled in both OpenSuSE Leap 42.3 64bit LINUX. The former is compatible with most LINUX distributions. It contains the configuration files for running FADO: FADO.config and PLOT.config, as well as the "Simple Stellar Population" (SSP) base library with the base file list Base.BC03.L, the FADO V.1.B short manual Read_F and this file (in the ReadMe directory) and, for testing purposes, three characteristic de-redshifted spectra from SDSS-DR7 in ascii format, corresponding to a star-forming (spec1.txt), composite (spec2.txt) and LINER (spec3.txt) galaxy. Auxiliary files needed for execution of FADO (.HIfbound_em.ascii, .HeII_fbound.ascii, .HeIfboundem.ascii, grfont.dat and grfont.txt) are also included in the tarball. By decompressing the tarball the following six directories are created: input, output, plots, ReadMe, SSPs and tables (see below for a brief explanation).

Acknowledgments
Publications making use of FADO (or derivatives of it) and its subsequent releases must acknowledge the presentation article of the code by Gomes & Papaderos (2017, A&A, 603, A63).

Orginal statement in the FADO article
This work was supported by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) through national funds and by FEDER through COMPETE by the grants UID/FIS/04434/2013 & POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007672 and PTDC/FIS-AST/3214/2012 & FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-029170. We acknowledge support by European Community Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement No. PIRSES-GA-2013-612701 (SELGIFS). J.M.G. was supported by the fellowship SFRH/BPD/66958/2009 funded by FCT (Portugal) and POPH/FSE (EC) and by the fellowship CIAAUP-04/2016-BPD in the context of the FCT project UID/FIS/04434/2013 & POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007672. P.P. was supported by FCT through Investigador FCT contract IF/01220/2013/CP1191/CT0002. We thank Mayanna Gomes for the invaluable discussions related to the field of genetics, and Leandro Cardoso for extensive tests of FADO.

Extended statement
We thank several researchers that have provided important feedback for fixing and improving FADO:
Boris Denshev
Catarina Lobo
Cirino Pappalardo
Iris Breda
Mercedes Mollá
Patricio Lagos
Tom Scott