Citing obscura

How to cite

If you decide to use this code, or if you want to add a reference to it, please cite both the paper and the code.

Emken, T., obscura: A modular C++ tool and library for the direct detection of (sub-GeV) dark matter via nuclear and electron recoils, Journal of Open Source Software, 6(68), 3725, 2021

Emken, T., 2021, obscura - A C++ library for dark matter detection computations [Code] [DOI:10.5281/zenodo.4557187]

Bibtex entries.
@article{Emken:2021uzb,
author = "Emken, Timon",
title = "{obscura: A modular C++ tool and library for the direct detection of (sub-GeV) dark matter via nuclear and electron recoils}",
eprint = "2112.01489",
archivePrefix = "arXiv",
primaryClass = "hep-ph",
doi = "10.21105/joss.03725",
journal = "J. Open Source Softw.",
volume = "6",
pages = "3725",
year = "2021"
}
@software{obscura,
author = {Emken, Timon},
title = {{obscura - A C++ library for dark matter detection computations [Code]}},
year         = {2021},
publisher    = {Zenodo},
doi          = {DOI:10.5281/zenodo.4557187},
url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4557187},
howpublished={The code can be found under \url{https://github.com/temken/obscura}.}
}

Cite a specific version

If you want to cite a specific version, please cite the respective DOI that can be found here. For example, for v1.0.1:

Emken, T., 2021, obscura - A C++ library for dark matter detection computations [Code, v1.0.1] [DOI:10.5281/zenodo.5956877]

Bibtex entry.
@software{obscura_1_0_1,
author = {Emken, Timon},
title = {{obscura - A C++ library for dark matter detection computations [Code, v1.0.1]}},
year         = {2021},
publisher    = {Zenodo},
version      = {v1.0.1},
doi          = {DOI:10.5281/zenodo.5956877},
url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5956877},
howpublished={The code can be found under \url{https://github.com/temken/obscura}.}
}

Research and research software using obscura

The library obscura has been applied to obtain the scientific results of the following papers

  1. Solar constraints on captured electrophilic dark matter, by D. Bose et al.

[arXiv:2112.08286]
  1. Solar reflection of light dark matter with heavy mediators, by Timon Emken

[arXiv:2102.12483]

Here is a list of research software using obscura:

  1. Emken, T., 2021, Dark Matter Simulation Code for Underground Scatterings - Sun Edition (DaMaSCUS-SUN) Astrophysics Source Code Library, record [ascl:2102.018], [DOI:10.5281/zenodo.4559874]