This repository contains all the files required to generate my master's thesis in astronomy and astrophysics. The report is titled Interstellar Interceptors. Mission design for rendezvous with objects in hyperbolic orbits.
The following requirements apply for building this project:
- Make: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/
- LaTeX: https://www.latex-project.org/
- XeLaTeX: https://tug.org/xetex/
The project is divided into different directories, each one devoted to store a particular type of information:
.
├── asy
├── bib
├── bin
├── dat
├── fig
│ └── static
├── main.tex
├── Makefile
├── README.md
├── src
└── tex
Within the asy/ folder, all the scripts used for building the Asymptote based
figures are located. Their output will be temporary stored in the fig/
directory and removed after the PDF file has been successfully compiled. Notice
that the static/ sub-directory holds figures which are not supposed to be
deleted after the cleaning process has been executed.
Regarding bib/, src/ and tex/ locations, they host all necessary style,
bibliography and work content files. The main.tex file is the one used to
control the rest of LaTeX files.
The bin/ and dat/ directories is where all binaries and databases used by
them are saved.
Finally the Makefile is where all auxiliary rules for automation are
described.
Several programs are required to compile the project. The versions listed here are the ones originally used to build all files. It might be possible that with newer version, some of tools presented in the following lines are not able to produce expected results.
latexindent: a tool for formatting LaTeX files
3.8.3, 2020-11-06
XeLaTeX: the LaTeX engine used to compile the files
XeTeX 3.14159265-2.6-0.999992 (TeX Live 2020/Arch Linux)
kpathsea version 6.3.2
Compiled with ICU version 68.2; using 68.2
Compiled with zlib version 1.2.11; using 1.2.11
Compiled with FreeType2 version 2.10.4; using 2.10.4
Compiled with Graphite2 version 1.3.14; using 1.3.14
Compiled with HarfBuzz version 2.7.4; using 2.7.4
Compiled with libpng version 1.6.37; using 1.6.37
Compiled with poppler version 21.02.0
Compiled with fontconfig version 2.13.91; using 2.13.91
biber: it is used for building the project bibliography
biber version: 2.15
pdfTeX: the program used to render the output PDF file
pdfTeX 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.21 (TeX Live 2020/Arch Linux)
kpathsea version 6.3.2
Compiled with libpng 1.6.37; using libpng 1.6.37
Compiled with zlib 1.2.11; using zlib 1.2.11
Compiled with poppler version 21.02.0
asymptote: it is used for building all technical figures and drawings
Asymptote version 2.69 [(C) 2004 Andy Hammerlindl, John C. Bowman, Tom Prince]
ghostscript: the tool acting as PostScript interpreter, related with drawings
GPL Ghostscript 9.53.3 (2020-10-01)
Python: the programming language under which binaries are implemented
Python: 3.8.5
make: an utomatition for simplifying project building process
GNU Make 4.3
Built x86_64-pc-linux-gnu