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 GALPROP is a numerical package for Galactic cosmic-ray propagation and associated electromagetic emission including gamma rays and synchrotron radiation.
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 This is version 54 based on the original public GALPROP version and extensively updated.
 It has been maintained up to now at sourceforge https://sourceforge.net/projects/galprop.
-Further developments will be maintained here with gitlab hosted by the Max-Planck Society MPCDF. This starts with the last revision r2766 on sourceforge; see there for details.
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+Further developments will be maintained here with gitlab hosted by the Max-Planck Society MPCDF.
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+This starts with the last revision r2766 on sourceforge; see there for details.
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 For further information and related projects see https://www.mpe.mpg.de/~aws/propagate.html.
 
 Current version (r2766) includes
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 Full details can be found in the Explanatory Supplement (included in the package) and details of installation and the change log are in the package README.
 
+This development of GALPROP v54 has been downloaded over 800 times since 2015.
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 Older versions, datasets etc: http://galprop.stanford.edu .
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 https://sourceforge.net/projects/galpropsynchrotron General-purpose synchrotron routines with full Bessel functions and including polarization.
 
+https://sourceforge.net/projects/stellarics  StellarICS: Inverse Compton emission from the sun and stars, including general-purpose inverse Compton scattering routines.
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