Reports and papers

A list of the published reports, papers and selected documentation of the SOFA Center are given below, some of which are in pdf format.

2013: Journées Tutorial; presentation and example programmes in Fortran and ANSI C — part of Nicole Capitaine's tutorial on "New concepts and models for Earth Orientation transformation".

2013: SOFA Authoritative Tools & Standard Models — Journées 2013 Poster in Session 5, Item 5.3.

2011: Hohenkerk, C., 2011, SOFA and the algorithms for transformations between scales & between systems and examples, Journées 2011, Vienna.

2011: Hohenkerk, C.Y., 2011, SOFA – A Status Report, Review and a Look to the Future, Proceedings of the "Journées 2010 Systèmes de référence spatio-temporels". N. Capitaine (ed.), Observatoire de Paris, 16.

2011: Hohenkerk, C., 2011, Standards of Fundamental Astronomy. Scholarpedia, 6(1):11404.

2009: Wallace, P.T., 2009, Recent SOFA Developments, Proceedings of the "Journées 2008 Systèmes de référence spatio-temporels". M. Soffel and N. Capitaine (eds.), Lohrmann-Observatorium and Observatoire de Paris, 50.

2007: Wallace, P.T., 2007, SOFA Tools for Earth Attitude, a cookbook providing more detailed information and examples for subset of SOFA routines.

2004-05: Wallace, P.T., 2004, SOFA software support for IAU 2000, American Astronomical Society Meeting 204, #28.02, May 2004.

2002: Wallace, P.T., 2002, in IERS Technical Note No. 29, N. Capitaine et al. (eds.), Verlag des Bundesamts für Kartographie und Geodäsie, Frankfurt am Main, 65.

Wallace, P., 2002, Update to SOFA Report in Highlights in Astronomy, Vol. 12, H. Rickman (ed.), Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 128.

2000-03: A progress report presented at IAU Colloquium 180, Washington DC, USA, 353.

1997-08: A paper given at the 1997-08 IAU General Assembly in Kyoto, Japan, describing the SOFA Progress and Plans.

Wallace, P., 1996, The IAU SOFA Initiative, in Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems V, G.H. Jacoby and J. Barnes (eds.), ASP Conference Series, Vol. 101, pp. 207-210.