Constellation Reference Paper Published#
The reference paper for Constellation has been accepted and published in Nucl. Instr. Meth. A (10.1016/j.nima.2026.171279). It describes the network protocol and system architecture of Constellation in detail and presents a selection of first applications of Constellation.
The authors kindly ask to cite this reference paper in scientific publications for all works using Constellation, for example as:
S. Spannagel et al., “Constellation: The autonomous control and data acquisition system for dynamic experimental setups”, Nucl. Instr. Meth. A 1085 (2026) 171279, doi:10.1016/j.nima.2026.171279, arXiv:2601.06494.
Please also cite the version used for the published work using the Zenodo record, for example as:
S. Lachnit, H. Perrey & S. Spannagel (2025). Constellation (0.6.1). DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17294234.
BibTex citations:
@article{constellation,
title = {Constellation: The autonomous control and data acquisition system for dynamic experimental setups},
journal = {Nucl. Instr. Meth. A},
volume = {1085},
pages = {171279},
year = {2026},
issn = {0168-9002},
doi = {10.1016/j.nima.2026.171279},
author = {Simon Spannagel and Stephan Lachnit and Hanno Perrey and Justus Braach and Lene Kristian Bryngemark and Erika Garutti and Adrian Herkert and Finn King and Christoph Krieger and David Leppla-Weber and Linus Ros and Sara {Ruiz Daza} and Murtaza Safdari and Luis G. Sarmiento and Annika Vauth and Håkan Wennlöf},
eprint = {2601.06494},
eprinttype = {arxiv},
eprintclass = {physics.ins-det},
}
@software{lachnit_2025_17294234,
author = {Stephan Lachnit and Hanno Perrey and Simon Spannagel},
title = {Constellation},
year = 2025,
publisher = {Zenodo},
version = {0.6.1},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.17294234},
}