About Constellation#

Constellation is an autonomous control and data acquisition system for small-scale experiments and experimental setup with volatile and dynamic constituents such as testbeam environments or laboratory test stands. Constellation aims to provide a flexible framework that is easy to use and requires minimal effort for the integration of new devices.

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Constellation is hosted at and mainly developed by Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, a Research Center of the Helmholtz Association.

A list of all authors and contributors can be found in the AUTHORS.md file in the software repository.

The software is released as open source software under the terms of the European Union Public License 1.2, this website and the documentation are distributed under the Creative Commons CC-BY-4.0 license.

The development of Constellation is coordinated through the EDDA (Exchange on & Development of Data Acquisitions) Collaboration. Events, workshops and new releases are announced via the EDDA mailing list.

Citing Constellation#

Constellation is distributed freely and openly under the EUPL license, but the authors kindly ask to cite the Zenodo record in scientific publications:

  • The versioned Zenodo records can be found at 10.5281/zenodo.15688357. Please cite the version used for the published work. For example, the version 0.4 should be cited as:

    Lachnit, S., Perrey, H., & Spannagel, S. (2025). Constellation (0.4). DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15688358.