# References — SeisComP Release documentation

6.9.0

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## iLoc

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2. Bondár, I. and K. McLaughlin, Seismic location bias and uncertainty in the presence of correlated and non-Gaussian travel-time errors, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 99, 172-193, doi:10.1785/0120080922, 2009.

3. Bondár, I., E.R. Engdahl, A. Villasenor, J.Harris and D. Storchak, ISC-GEM: Global instrumental earthquake catalogue (1900-2009), II. Location and seismicity patterns, Phys. Earth. Planet. Int., doi: 10.1016/j.pepi.2014.06.002, 239, 2-13, 2015.

4. Buland, R. and C.H. Chapman, 1983. The computation of seismic travel times, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 73, 1271-1302.

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7. Kennett, B. and Engdahl, E.R., 1991. Travel times for global earthquake location and phase identification, Geophys. J. Int., 105, 429–465.

8. Kennett, B.L.N., E.R. Engdahl, and R. Buland, 1995. Constraints on seismic velocities in the Earth from traveltimes, Geophys. J. Int., 122, 108-124.

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10. Myers, S.C, M.L. Begnaud, S. Ballard, M.E. Pasyanos, W.S. Phillips, A.L. Ramirez, M.S. Antolik, K.D. Hutchenson, J. Dwyer, C. A. Rowe, and G. S. Wagner, 2010, A crust and upper mantle model of Eurasia and North Africa for Pn travel time calculation, Bull. Seism. Soc. Am., 100, 640-656.

11. Weber, B., Bondár, I., Roessler, D., Becker, J., SeisComP3 iLoc Integration Applied to Array Processing, SnT conference, Abstract: T3.5-P54, Vienna/Austria, 2019, abstract: T3.5-P54

## FixedHypocenter

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