Citing

If you use unite in your research, please cite it. This helps support the project and makes your work reproducible.

Zenodo (software release)

All versioned releases of unite are archived on Zenodo:

This DOI always resolves to the full release record where you can select a specific version. Zenodo generates BibTeX, APA, and other citation formats automatically on that page.

Example BibTeX entry (visit the link above to get the entry for a specific version):

@software{hviding_unite,
  author       = {Hviding, Raphael Erik},
  title        = {{unite}: Unified liNe Integration Turbo Engine},
  publisher    = {Zenodo},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.15585034},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15585034}
}

NIRSpec Line Spread Function (LSF) data

If you use the NIRSpec LSF data provided by unite, please also cite the relevant source.

For the point source LSF, cite the paper that developed the forward-modeling methodology for generating resolution curves for NIRSpec MSA spectroscopy:

@ARTICLE{2024A&A...684A..87D,
       author = {{de Graaff}, Anna and {Rix}, Hans-Walter and {Carniani}, Stefano and
                 {Suess}, Katherine A. and {Charlot}, St{\'e}phane and
                 {Curtis-Lake}, Emma and {Arribas}, Santiago and {Baker}, William M. and
                 {Boyett}, Kristan and {Bunker}, Andrew J. and {Cameron}, Alex J. and
                 {Chevallard}, Jacopo and {Curti}, Mirko and {Eisenstein}, Daniel J. and
                 {Franx}, Marijn and {Hainline}, Kevin and {Hausen}, Ryan and
                 {Ji}, Zhiyuan and {Johnson}, Benjamin D. and {Jones}, Gareth C. and
                 {Maiolino}, Roberto and {Maseda}, Michael V. and {Nelson}, Erica and
                 {Parlanti}, Eleonora and {Rawle}, Tim and {Robertson}, Brant and
                 {Tacchella}, Sandro and {{\"U}bler}, Hannah and {Williams}, Christina C. and
                 {Willmer}, Christopher N.~A. and {Willott}, Chris},
        title = "{Ionised gas kinematics and dynamical masses of z $\gtrsim$ 6 galaxies
                  from JADES/NIRSpec high-resolution spectroscopy}",
      journal = {A\&A},
         year = 2024,
        month = apr,
       volume = {684},
          eid = {A87},
        pages = {A87},
          doi = {10.1051/0004-6361/202347755},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
       eprint = {2308.09742},
 primaryClass = {astro-ph.GA},
}

For the uniform LSF, cite the NIRSpec instrument paper:

@ARTICLE{2022A&A...661A..80J,
       author = {{Jakobsen}, P. and {Ferruit}, P. and {Alves de Oliveira}, C. and
                 {Arribas}, S. and {Bagnasco}, G. and {Barho}, R. and {Beck}, T.~L. and
                 {Birkmann}, S. and {B{\"o}ker}, T. and {Bunker}, A.~J. and
                 {Charlot}, S. and {de Jong}, P. and {de Marchi}, G. and
                 {Ehrenwinkler}, R. and {Falcolini}, M. and {Fels}, R. and {Franx}, M. and
                 {Franz}, D. and {Funke}, M. and {Giardino}, G. and {Gnata}, X. and
                 {Holota}, W. and {Honnen}, K. and {Jensen}, P.~L. and {Jentsch}, M. and
                 {Johnson}, T. and {Jollet}, D. and {Karl}, H. and {Kling}, G. and
                 {K{\"o}hler}, J. and {Kolm}, M.-G. and {Kumari}, N. and
                 {Lander}, M.~E. and {Lemke}, R. and {L{\'o}pez-Caniego}, M. and
                 {L{\"u}tzgendorf}, N. and {Maiolino}, R. and {Manjavacas}, E. and
                 {Marston}, A. and {Maschmann}, M. and {Maurer}, R. and
                 {Messerschmidt}, B. and {Moseley}, S.~H. and {Mosner}, P. and
                 {Mott}, D.~B. and {Muzerolle}, J. and {Pirzkal}, N. and
                 {Pittet}, J.-F. and {Plitzke}, A. and {Posselt}, W. and {Rapp}, B. and
                 {Rauscher}, B.~J. and {Rawle}, T. and {Rix}, H.-W. and {R{\"o}del}, A. and
                 {Rumler}, P. and {Sabbi}, E. and {Salvignol}, J.-C. and {Schmid}, T. and
                 {Sirianni}, M. and {Smith}, C. and {Strada}, P. and {te Plate}, M. and
                 {Valenti}, J. and {Wettemann}, T. and {Wiehe}, T. and {Wiesmayer}, M. and
                 {Willott}, C.~J. and {Wright}, R. and {Zeidler}, P. and {Zincke}, C.},
        title = "{The Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) on the James Webb Space
                  Telescope. I. Overview of the instrument and its capabilities}",
      journal = {A\&A},
         year = 2022,
        month = may,
       volume = {661},
          eid = {A80},
        pages = {A80},
          doi = {10.1051/0004-6361/202142663},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
       eprint = {2202.03305},
 primaryClass = {astro-ph.IM},
}