License and Citations

DESPOTIC is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3.0. The text of the license is included in the main directory of the repository as GPL-3.0.txt.

If you cite DESPOTIC in any published work, please cite the code paper: DESPOTIC – A New Software Library to Derive the Energetics and SPectra of Optically Thick Interstellar Clouds, Krumholz, M. R. 2014, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 437, 1662.

If you use the winds module, please also cite the paper describing that module: The observable properties of cool winds from galaxies, AGN, and star clusters - I. Theoretical framework, Krumholz, M. R., Thompson, T. A., Ostriker, E. C., & Martin, C. L. 2017, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 471, 4061.