

  Electronic tables and routines to compute envelope binding energies of giant stars, an electronic appendix to
  Analytical expressions for the envelope binding energy of giants as a function of basic stellar parameters
  by A.J. Loveridge, M.V. van der Sluys and V. Kalogera
  
  We created a set of fits that describe the envelope binding energies of stars with metallicities between Z=10-4 
  and Z=0.03 and masses between 0.8 and 100 Mo on the giant branches. These binding energies can be used to compute 
  the outcome of common-envelope events where detailed stellar models are not available, e.g. in population-synthesis 
  codes.
  
  A draft of the paper describing our results can be found in Loveridge et al., 2010, submitted for publication in 
  ApJ: http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.5400.  This electronic appendix can be found here: 
  http://www.astro.ru.nl/~sluys/index.php?title=be
  
  Fits
  The data files containing the fitting parameters described in the paper, Fortran code to use that data to compute 
  binding energies and an example program can be found in binding_energy.tar.bz2. You can unpack, compile and run the 
  code with:
    $ tar xfj binding_energy.tar.bz2
    $ make
    $ ./example_program
    
  The example Makefile uses gfortran by default; you can edit it before the make command to change that. The example 
  program should produce the output in example_output.txt. In the src/ directory of the tar ball, the file 
  binding_energy.f90 contains the code that is needed to read in the data files and to compute the binding energy 
  for a given set of stellar parameters. Detailed documentation of the code, generated by Doxygen, is available in 
  doc/index.html.
  
  
