An open-source community LSST Solar System Simulator

Documentation: https://sorcha.readthedocs.io

Other software utilities can be found in this github repository: https://github.com/dirac-institute/sorcha-addons

developer best practices

• Data sets should be moved to the src/sorcha/modules/data folder, have a readme.txt or readme.md to explain where the data came from as well as a time stamp in the readme.txt.
• Data sets that are used for unit testing should live in tests/data.
• All required input files for the main software or unit tests should have extensions that clearly describe the file format (e.g. .csv, .txt, .db, .fits)
• If you are working on addressing a specific issue ticket, assign yourself the ticket.
• When making a pull request that closes an issue, cite the issue ticket in the pull request summary
• Docstrings should follow the NumPy style

Collaboration

This effort is a collaboration between Queen's University Belfast, the University of Washington's DiRAC Institute, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, and LINCC Frameworks (through the LINCC Frameworks Incubator Program).

This project is supported in part by the generosity of Eric and Wendy Schmidt by recommendation of the Schmidt Futures program.