Acknowledgements

This effort is a collaboration between Queen's University Belfast, the University of Washington's DiRAC Institute, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, and LINCC Frameworks (through the LINCC Frameworks Incubator Program).

Sorcha development was supported in part by:

Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) grants ST/P000304/1, ST/V000691/1, ST/X001253/1, and ST/V506990/1
Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship
Preparing for Astrophysics with LSST Program, funded by the Heising Simons Foundation through grant 2021-2975, and administered by Las Cumbres Observatory
LSST Discovery Alliance LINCC Frameworks Incubator grant [2023-SFF-LFI-01-Schwamb]. Support was provided by Schmidt Sciences.
University of Washington College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Astronomy, and the DiRAC (Data-intensive Research in Astrophysics and Cosmology) Institute. The DiRAC Institute is supported through generous gifts from the Charles and Lisa Simonyi Fund for Arts and Sciences and the Washington Research Foundation
Washington Research Foundation Data Science Term Chair fund and the University of Washington Provost's Initiative in Data-Intensive Discovery.
Department for the Economy (DfE) Northern Ireland postgraduate studentship scheme
National Science Foundation through the following awards: Collaborative Research: SWIFT-SAT: Minimizing Science Impact on LSST and Observatories Worldwide through Accurate Predictions of Satellite Position and Optical Brightness NSF Award Number: 2332736 and Collaborative Research: Rubin Rocks: Enabling near-Earth asteroid science with LSST NSF Award Number: 2307570
Travel funding from the STFC for UK participation in LSST through STFC grant ST/S006206/1

Several functions within Sorcha were adapted from code originally developed for rubin_sim, We thank the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Data Management Team and Scheduler Team for making their software open-source. Development of rubin_sim was supported in part by the National Science Foundation through Cooperative Agreement AST-1258333 and Cooperative Support Agreement AST1836783 managed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), and the Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-76SF00515 with the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory managed by Stanford University.