Welcome to SOFT’s documentation!

You have reached the Quickstart documentation of SOFT, the Synchrotron-detecting Orbit Following Toolkit. To get the source code of SOFT, check the SOFT website or SOFT GitHub repository. If you’re looking for the gory mathematical details of how SOFT is implemented, you should look into the SOFT Manual.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Compiling
  • Dependencies
  • Obtaining the code
  • Compiling
  • Usage
• How to run SOFT
  • Examples
  • Basic syntax
  • Environments
• Magnetic equilibria
  • Analytic circular
  • Numeric
• Distribution functions
  • File format
  • Helper tools for CODE/NORSE
• Geometric kernels
  • Output file
  • Working with kernel function
• Polarization information
  • What information does SOFT store?
  • File format
• 3D emission maps
  • Solving for surface-of-visibility
  • Visualizing
• Parameter reference
  • Global options
  • Particle settings
  • Magnetic settings
  • sycout settings
• The SDT format
  • Basic structure
  • Example SDT file
• Troubleshooting

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page