Best way to cite Tudat/Tudatpy?

astrojuanlu commented 2 years ago

Hi! I'm writing a conference paper on poliastro, an open-source Python library for interactive Astrodynamics (WIP draft here) and I just remembered that tudat exists (thanks @nosudrum!). What would be the best way to cite it in an academic piece of work? I see that lots of research uses Tudat, but I don't see a "proper citation" anywhere.

In case there isn't, I will figure out a way to generate a proper BiBTeX fragment from this repository or the tudatpy one. (And also in that case you should check out https://zenodo.org/ and https://joss.theoj.org/!)

Nosudrum commented 2 years ago

I was going to ask the same question within the next few weeks, so I'm definitely interested in the answer :)

DominicDirkx commented 2 years ago

Hi Juan, great to hear that you want to incorporate a mention of Tudat in your work! If you've used Tudat(py) and have any input for us, we're very open to hearing outside opinions, advice, criticisms, etc. Now that wee have a decently working Python interface, and not just a C++ interface, we'll be doing a lot more over the coming year to making Tudat known to people outside of our Spaceflight M.Sc. curriculum.

At the moment, there is not a very good way to cite Tudat, but:

We will be getting some support from the TU Delft 'Center for Digital Competencies', and making Tudat citable one of the things thy will support us with. We have the kickoff of this support next week, and I hope to be able to update you on this soon
We will have a presentation/poster at both IAC (https://iac2022.org/) and EPSC (https://www.epsc2022.eu/) in September (for IAC, there is also an accompanying paper)
There is an Appendix on Tudat in this semi-recent paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10509-019-3521-4 It's by no means the ideal way to cite Tudat, though...
The 'place to go' for someone unfamiliar with Tudat is https://docs.tudat.space/ with the code being here: https://github.com/tudat-team. I'll leave it to you to choose which one(s) best fit the paper you're working on

If you need any more info, don't hesitate to let us know,

Dominic

astrojuanlu commented 2 years ago

Thanks @DominicDirkx! I have to deliver the paper soon so unfortunately I won't be able to wait for the "proper way" but I'll acknowledge the project anyway. I havent' used it, it's in the context of listing some existing open source astrodynamics libraries.

DominicDirkx commented 2 years ago

Thanks for putting us in there. If at any time in the future you'd be interested in diving into Tudat and want to have a chat about it, our door is open :)

Nosudrum commented 2 years ago

Hi @DominicDirkx

We have the kickoff of this support next week, and I hope to be able to update you on this soon

do you have any news on this ?

We will have a presentation/poster at IAC (https://iac2022.org/)

Do you already have more info on this (date & location of presentation) ? I suppose the poster will be at the TU Delft booth ?

DominicDirkx commented 2 years ago

Apologies, I missed your message. The DCC kickoff got postponed due to illness, unfortunately. I hope to update you soon. I'm not sure which session we're in for the IAC. We have a presentation in one of the regular sessions, @transferorbit and @FilippoOggionni may know more.

transferorbit commented 2 years ago

The most recent information I have is that we are scheduled for an Interactive Presentation on 21 Sep 2022. We will only be notified of the time-slot and screen number in August.

DominicDirkx commented 2 years ago

Do you know if the abstract is already available on the IAC website?

transferorbit commented 2 years ago

Do you know if the abstract is already available on the IAC website?

It took some digging, but the abstract does appear to be publicly available here.

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