With heavy development on the new version of PHOEBE, the subversion repository that serves PHOEBE sources has changed. The 0.2x branch of PHOEBE has moved to the obsolete/ branch of the repository; the 0.3x branch of PHOEBE has moved to the stable/ branch of the repository; the devel/ branch remains empty for just a while longer -- until we make sure all critical bugs have been addressed -- and from that point onwards the drinks rule applies. For more information on the subversion structure please click here.

The PHOEBE development team cordially invites everyone interested in the new-age PHOEBE development to participate in the 4th power-meeting hosted at Villanova, Pennsylvania. Power meetings are 1- to 2-week get-togethers of developers devoted to brainstorming and implementation of new ideas. With everyone away from their daily obligations for a couple of weeks, we focus solely on PHOEBE development in a collaborative, productive environment. The 4th power-meeting at Villanova will be devoted to the GUI, to backend testing and to implementing new physics. If you plan on attending, please fill out the registration form.

The PHOEBE development team cordially invites everyone interested in the new-age PHOEBE development to participate in the 3rd power-meeting hosted in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Power meetings are 1- to 2-week get-togethers of developers devoted to brainstorming and implementation of new ideas. With everyone away from their daily obligations for a week, we focus solely on PHOEBE development in a collaborative, productive environment. The 3rd power-meeting in Ljubljana will be devoted to backend testing and debugging. If you plan on attending (even tentatively), please fill out the registration form.

Hopefully this piece of news will be of interest to you: prompted by the unprecedented accuracy of Kepler light curves, the PHOEBE development team is working on a complete redesign of PHOEBE. We are refining all aspects of the code to come up with a flexible, modern framework that will (1) meet the requirements for ultra-high precision modeling, and (2) allow for easy and convenient expansion of the feature-set. Our development motto is that PHOEBE should be able to model a UFO eclipsing a Ferrari.