Acknowledgement

If you are making reference to the CASTOR Telescope, please cite the CASTOR summary paper in SPIE JATIS. The bibtex entry is below.

@article{10.1117/1.JATIS.11.4.042202,
author = {Patrick C{\^o}t{\'e} and Tyrone Woods and John B. Hutchings and Jason D. Rhodes and Ruben Sanchez-Janssen and Alan D. Scott and John S. Pazder and Melissa Amenouche and Michael Balogh and Simon Blouin and Alain Cournoyer and Maria R. Drout and Nick Kuzmin and Katherine J. Mack and Laura Ferrarese and Wesley C. Fraser and Sarah  C.  Gallagher and Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric Grandmont and Daryl Haggard and Paul Harrison and Vincent H{\'e}nault-Brunet and J. J. Kavelaars and Viraja Khatu and Joel C. Roediger and Jason Rowe and Marcin Sawicki and Jesper Skottfelt and Matt Taylor and Ludo van Waerbeke and Laurie Amen and Dhananjhay Bansal and Martin Bergeron and Toby Brown and Greg Burley and Hum Chand and Isaac Cheng and Ryan Cloutier and Nolan Dickson and Oleg Djazovski and Ivana Damjanov and James Doherty and Kyle Finner and Macarena Garc{\'i}a Del Valle Espinosa and Jennifer Glover and Ana I. G{\'o}mez de Castro and Or Graur and Tim Hardy and Michelle Kao and Denis A. Leahy and Deborah M. Lokhorst and A;ex Malz and Allison Man and Madeline Marshall and Sean McGee and Ryan McKenzie and Kai Michaud and Surhud S. More and David G. Morris and Patrick  W. Morris and Thibaud Moutard and Wasi Naqvi and Matt Nicholl and Ga{\"e}l Noirot and M.  S. Oey and Cyrielle Opitom and Samir Salim and Bryan Scott and Charles A. Shapiro and Daniel K. Stern and Annapurni Subramaniam and David Thilke and Ivan Wevers and Dmitry Vorobiev and L. Y. Aaron Yung and Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric Zamkotsian and Suzanne Aigrain and Anahita Alavi and Martin A. Barstow and Peter Bartosik and Hadleigh Bluhm and Jo Bovy and Peter G. Cameron and Raymond G. Carlberg and Jessie L. Christiansen and Yuyang Chen and Paul Crowther and Kristen Dage and Aaron Dotter and Patrick Dufour and Jean Dupuis and Ben Dryer and Angaraj Duara and Gwendolyn M. Eadie and Marielle R. Eduardo and Vincente Estrada-Carpenter and Sebastien Fabbro and Andreas Faisst and Nicole M. Ford and Morgan Fraser and Boris G{\"a}nsicke and Shashikiran Ganesh and Poshak Gandhi and Melissa L. Graham and Rebecca Hamel and Martin Hellmich and John J. Hennessy and Kaitlyn Hessel and Jeremy Heyl and Catherine Heymans and Yashar Hezaveh and Renee Hlozek and Michael E. Hoenk and Andrew Holland and Eric Huff and Ian Hutchinson and Ikuru Iwata and April D. Jewell and Doug Johnstone and Maia Jones and Todd Jones and Dustin Lang and Jon Lapington and Justin Larivi{\`e}re and Cameron Lawlor-Forsyth and Denis Laurin and Charles Lee and Ronan Legin and Ting S. Li and Sungsoon Lim and Bethany Ludwig and Matt Kozun and Vivek M. and Robert Mann and Alan W. McConnachie and Evan McDonough and Stanimir Metchev and David R. Miller and Takashi Moriya and Cameron Morgan and Julio Navarro and Ya{\"e}l Naz{\'e} and Shouleh Nikzad and Vivek Oad and Nathalie Ouellette and Emily K. Pass and Will  J. Percival and Laurence Perreault Levasseur and Joe Postma and Nayyer Raza and Gordon T. Richards and Harvey Richer and Carmelle Robert and Erik Rosolowsky and John  J. Ruan and Sarah Rugheimer and Samar Safi-Harb and Kanak Saha and Vicky Scowcroft and Federico Sestito and Himanshu Sharma and James Sikora and Gregory  R.  Sivakoff and Thirupathi Sivarani and Patrick Smith and Warren Soh and Robert Sorba and Smitha Subramanian and Hossen Teimoorinia and Harry I. Teplitz and Shaylin Thadani and Shavon Thadani and Aaron Tohuvavohu and Kim A. Venn and Nicholas Vieira and Jeremy J. Webb and Paul Wiegert and Ryan Wierckx and Yanqin Wu and Jade Yeung and Sukyoung  K.  Yi},
title = {{The CASTOR mission}},
volume = {11},
journal = {Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems},
number = {4},
publisher = {SPIE},
pages = {042202},
keywords = {ultraviolet, instrumentation, space vehicles, surveys, telescopes, Ultraviolet radiation, Stars, Galactic astronomy, Imaging spectroscopy, Design, Physics, Spectroscopy, Observational astronomy, Equipment, Telescopes},
year = {2025},
doi = {10.1117/1.JATIS.11.4.042202},
URL = {https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.11.4.042202}
}

If you use this code in your research, please cite the FORECASTOR I. paper. The BibTeX entry is below.

@ARTICLE{Cheng2024,
       author = {{Cheng}, Isaac and {Woods}, Tyrone E. and {C{\^o}t{\'e}}, Patrick and {Glover}, Jennifer and {Bansal}, Dhananjhay and {Amenouche}, Melissa and {Marshall}, Madeline A. and {Amen}, Laurie and {Hutchings}, John and {Ferrarese}, Laura and {Venn}, Kim A. and {Balogh}, Michael and {Blouin}, Simon and {Cloutier}, Ryan and {Dickson}, Nolan and {Gallagher}, Sarah and {Hellmich}, Martin and {H{\'e}nault-Brunet}, Vincent and {Khatu}, Viraja and {Lawlor-Forsyth}, Cameron and {Morgan}, Cameron and {Richer}, Harvey and {Sawicki}, Marcin and {Sorba}, Robert},
        title = "{FORECASTOR. I. Finding Optics Requirements and Exposure Times for the Cosmological Advanced Survey Telescope for Optical and UV Research Mission}",
      journal = {\aj},
     keywords = {Galaxies, M stars, Photometry, Proper motions, Ultraviolet telescopes, White dwarf stars, 573, 985, 1234, 1295, 1743, 1799, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics},
         year = 2024,
        month = apr,
       volume = {167},
       number = {4},
          eid = {178},
        pages = {178},
          doi = {10.3847/1538-3881/ad2987},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
       eprint = {2402.08137},
 primaryClass = {astro-ph.IM},
       adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2024AJ....167..178C},
      adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}

Additionally, if you utilize the UVMOS spectrograph features, please cite the UVMOS SPIE proceeding:

@INPROCEEDINGS{2022SPIE12181E..77G,
       author = {{Glover}, Jennifer and {Cheng}, Isaac and {Woods}, Tyrone E. and {C{\^o}t{\'e}}, Patrick and {Venn}, Kim and {Pazder}, John and {Hutchings}, John and {Blouin}, Simon},
        title = "{FORECASTOR: an exposure time calculator for the CASTOR space mission simulating UVMOS spectroscopy}",
    booktitle = {Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray},
         year = 2022,
       editor = {{den Herder}, Jan-Willem A. and {Nikzad}, Shouleh and {Nakazawa}, Kazuhiro},
       series = {Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series},
       volume = {12181},
        month = aug,
          eid = {1218177},
        pages = {1218177},
          doi = {10.1117/12.2643009},
       adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022SPIE12181E..77G},
      adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}