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 STARDIS Stellar Radiative transfer
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+Welcome to STARDIS!
+STARDIS is an LTE radiative transfer Python package that utilizes the TARDIS infrastructure 
+to generate synthetic stellar spectra. For more information about STARDIS, 
+including a quickstart notebook, physics walkthrough and installation instructions, go to our `documentation page <https://tardis-sn.github.io/stardis/>`_. 
+Or, try running the `quickstart notebook <docs/quickstart/quickstart.ipynb>`_ yourself!
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+To learn more about TARDIS, including documentation and collaborator information, go `here <https://tardis-sn.github.io/tardis/>`_.
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