Solar-MACH: An open-source tool to analyze solar magnetic connection configurations

The Solar MAgnetic Connection HAUS 1 tool (Solar-MACH) is an open-source completely written in Python that derives and visualizes the spatial configuration solar magnetic connection of different observers (i.e., spacecraft or planets) heliosphere at times. For doing this, interplanetary space obtained by classic Parker Heliospheric Magnetic Field (HMF). In close vicinity Sun, a Potential Source Surface (PFSS) model can be applied to connect HMF photosphere. Solar-MACH especially aimed providing publication-ready figures for analyses Energetic Particle events (SEPs) transients such as Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs). It provided installable package (listed on PyPI conda-forge), but also web solar-mach.github.io runs any browser requires neither knowledge nor installation. development open everyone takes place GitHub, where source code publicly available under BSD 3-Clause License. Established libraries like sunpy pfsspy are utilized obtain functionalities when possible. this article, explained, its functionality demonstrated using real science examples. addition, we introduce overarching SERPENTINE project, umbrella which recent took place.