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Standards of Fundamental Astronomy

February 26, 2023

The Standards of Fundamental Astronomy (SOFA) software libraries are a collection of subroutines that implement official International Astronomical Union (IAU) algorithms for astronomical computations.

Standards of Fundamental Astronomy
Stable release
2018-01-30 / 2018-01-30
Written inC and Fortran
Operating systemCross-platform
TypeNumerical library
LicenseSOFA Software License
Websitehttp://www.iausofa.org/

As of February 2009 they are available in both Fortran and C source code format.

Capabilities

The subroutines in the libraries cover the following areas:

Licensing

As of the February 2009 release, SOFA licensing changed to allow use for any purpose, provided certain requirements are met.[1] Previously, commercial usage was specifically excluded and required written agreement of the SOFA board.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ SOFA Software License for Issue 2009-02-01, International Astronomical Union, 2008-09-30, retrieved 2009-09-09.
  2. ^ SOFA Software License for Issue 2008-03-01, International Astronomical Union, 2007-05-21, retrieved 2009-09-09.

External links

  • SOFA Home Page
  • Scholarpedia overview of SOFA
  • International Astronomical Union and Working group "Standards of Fundamental Astronomy
 

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February 26, 2023
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