SORA: Stellar Occultation Reduction and Analysis


Using and Citing SORA

Terms of Use

SORA is free software and we kindly ask users that make use of it (or part of it), especially in projects, if that results in scientific publications, to include the following acknowledgment statement:

“This research made use of SORA, a python package for stellar occultations reduction and
analysis, developed with the support of ERC Lucky Star and LIneA/Brazil.”

Also, for a scientific publication, please be attentive the following terms of use for co-authorship:

  1. If you participate in the collaboration Rio/Granada/Paris and use SORA for the analysis of objects within the collaboration (e.g. TNOs, Centaurs, giant planets Trojans, among others), the SORA team may have the possibility to decide if any of its PIs should be co-author of the publication. In this case, the SORA team will commit to:

    • Teach the functionalities of the SORA package in a hands-on session or individually;

    • Run SORA, if necessary;

    • Fix any bug - in SORA code - with urgency;

    • Implement new requested features with high priority.

  2. If you participate in the collaboration Rio/Granada/Paris and use SORA for the analysis of objects outside the collaboration (e.g. Main-Belt Asteroids, NEAs, among others), the SORA team will not demand the possibility to become a co-author, but it should be included in the acknowledgement sentence (see below) in the publication.

  3. If you are NOT from the Rio/Granada/Paris collaboration and use SORA for the analysis of any object the SORA team will not demand the possibility to become a co-author, but it should be included in the acknowledgement sentence (see below) in the publication.

As a drawback for itens 2 and 3, the SORA team will NOT commit to:

  • Teach the functionalities of the SORA package in a hands-on session or individually;

  • Run SORA;

  • Fix any bug - in SORA code - with urgency, unless it is a critical bug;

  • Implement new requested features with high priority;

In the event of granting priority or special attention to the user by the SORA team, further discussions will be made to address the addition of a specific co-author (or co-authors) from the team in the publication.

License

Copyright (c) 2021 SORA team

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

Note

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.