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

::

    Gomes-Júnior et al. (2022). SORA: Stellar occultation reduction and analysis.
    MNRAS, Volume 511, Issue 1, March 2022, Pages 1167–1181
    DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac032


The scientific documentation of SORA is described in the paper available on Monthly Notices
of the Royal Astronomical Society, which can be accessed on the following links:

* |link_mnras|;
* |link_arxiv|;
* |link_ads|;

.. |link_mnras| raw:: html

 <a href="https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/511/1/1167/6501222" target="_blank">MNRAS</a>

.. |link_arxiv| raw:: html

  <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.01799" target="_blank">Arxiv</a>

.. |link_ads| raw:: html

  <a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022MNRAS.511.1167G%2F/abstract" target="_blank">ADS</a>

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 the code should be properly
   cited as stated above.

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 the code should
   be properly cited as stated above.


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
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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.


Papers that cited SORA
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Last updated on March 19, 2025

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