Downloading AIRES and related software

Installation instructions.

System requirements: To install AIRES successfully, your system must fulfill the following requirements:

A FORTRAN and C compiler are required. Currently gfortran and gcc in Linux or Mac OSX platforms.
If the operating system is not Linux or Mac OS X, the installation will have to be done manually and probably some little adaptative work will be needed. For the mentioned systems the installation is automatic.
To use the AIRES shared object library in a Python environment, it is also necessary to have installed: Python 3 (or later), and the Python libraries ctypes and numpy.

Downloading: AIRES is distributed in a compressed tar file plus the External Input data files that are distributed as a second compressed tar file. Yo must download the AIRES distribution into your system, decompress and tar expand it. This can be conveniently done inside a scratch directory created for this purpose. If you need to make a full installation, that is, including the possibility of running simulations with all the hadronic models available, you must also download the External Input data distribution (300 MB), and place it in the same directory where the AIRES distribution tar file is placed (there is no need to expand this external data distribution). It is not necessary to download this distribution if you intend to install AIRES only to analyze AIRES output files generated in other systems.
Installing: After completing the previous step, you will see that a directory whose name matches the corresponding AIRES version has been created. Enter that directory, read the file AAREADME-FIRST.txt and if you agree with the conditions there stated, you can continue with the installation accordingly with the guidelines placed inside the file.

AIRES 19.04.10 (23/Jan/2023). Current AIRES distribution (see the release notes for this version).
AIRES 19.04.08 (22/Oct/2021). Current AIRES distribution (see the release notes for this version).
External Input data files for AIRES (Jun/2021). Required to run any of the simulation programs.
ZHAireS extension 1.0.30c (04/Jul/2023). Allows to simulate radio wave emission during air shower development.

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Sergio J. Sciutto