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Hello Dr. Casagrande,
Thank you for providing this wonderful resource. My question is do I apply the bolometric correction as output from the routines to the original photometry? In other words, I do not need to apply an extinction correction to the observed magnitude before applying the bolometric correction because the output BolCor includes the passband extinction correction.
In other words

1. Mbol = BolCor + mobs - 5*log10(dist[pc]) + 5
   is the correct way to calculate the bolometric magnitude of a star, where BolCor is the output from your routines, mobs is the observed magnitude and dist is the distance to the star in pc.
   versus the incorrect way to calculate
2. Mbol = BolCor + mobs - 5*log10(dist[pc]) + 5 - A
   where A is a passband extinction correction.

My reading of the appendix A of Casagrande & Vandenberg (2012) convinces me that equation 1 is correct, but I wanted to double check.

I'm getting the following error when trying to run the default to test the code. Perhaps I installed it incorrectly or need to specify the input file differently?

 ./get4bctables
 enter E(B-V) value for which BCs are to be generated
0.05
 input file assigned to unit 20 does not exist
alpha_std/r00/header.data                 
STOP specified input file does not exist

How to calc. an uncertainty in the BC? Is that possible? Maybe from bootstrapping? Is that implemented given uncertainties in Teff, logg, Fe/H and E(B-B)?