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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
earth and planetary sciences
Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 558, Article A33, Year 2013
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Description
We present the first public version (v0.2) of the open-source and community-developed Python package, Astropy. This package provides core astronomy-related functionality to the community, including support for domain-specific file formats such as flexible image transport system (FITS) files, Virtual Observatory (VO) tables, and common ASCII table formats, unit and physical quantity conversions, physical constants specific to astronomy, celestial coordinate and time transformations, world coordinate system (WCS) support, generalized containers for representing gridded as well as tabular data, and a framework for cosmological transformations and conversions. Significant functionality is under activedevelopment, such as a model fitting framework, VO client and server tools, and aperture and point spread function (PSF) photometry tools. The core development team is actively making additions and enhancements to the current code base, and we encourage anyone interested to participate in the development of future Astropy versions. © ESO, 2013.
Authors & Co-Authors
Robitaille, Thomas P.
Germany, Heidelberg
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
Tollerud, Erik J.
United States, New Haven
Yale University
Greenfield, P.
United States, Baltimore
Space Telescope Science Institute
Droettboom, M.
United States, Baltimore
Space Telescope Science Institute
Bray, E. M.
United States, Baltimore
Space Telescope Science Institute
Aldcroft, Thomas L.
United States, Cambridge
Harvard-smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Davis, Matt
United States, Baltimore
Space Telescope Science Institute
Ginsburg, Adam G.
United States, Boulder
University of Colorado Boulder
Price-Whelan, A. M.
United States, New York
Columbia University
Kerzendorf, Wolfgang E.
Canada, Toronto
University of Toronto
Conley, Alexander J.
United States, Boulder
University of Colorado Boulder
Crighton, Neil H.M.
Germany, Heidelberg
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy
Barbary, Kyle
United States, Lemont
Argonne National Laboratory
Muna, Demitri N.
United States, Columbus
The Ohio State University
Ferguson, Henry C.
United States, Baltimore
Space Telescope Science Institute
Grollier, F.
Unknown Affiliation
Parikh, Madhura M.
India, Surat
S. V. National Institute of Technology
Nair, Prasanth H.
Unknown Affiliation
Günther, H. Moritz
United States, Cambridge
Harvard-smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Deil, Christoph
Germany, Heidelberg
Max-planck-institut Für Kernphysik
Woillez, Julien
Germany, Garching Bei Munchen
European Southern Observatory
Conseil, S.
France, Marseille
Laboratoire D'astrophysique de Marseille
Kramer, Roban
Switzerland, Zurich
Eth Zürich
Turner, James E.H.
United States, Hilo
Gemini Observatory
Singer, Leo P.
United States, Pasadena
California Institute of Technology
Fox, R. T.
Unknown Affiliation
Weaver, Benjamin Alan
United States, New York
The Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics
Zabalza, Víctor
Germany, Heidelberg
Max-planck-institut Für Kernphysik
Edwards, Z. I.
United States, Baton Rouge
Louisiana State University
Bostroem, K. Azalee
United States, Baltimore
Space Telescope Science Institute
Burke, D. J.
United States, Cambridge
Harvard-smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Casey, Andrew R.
Australia, Canberra
Australian National University, Mount Stromlo Observatory
Crawford, Steven M.
South Africa, Cape Town
South African Astronomical Observatory
Dencheva, N.
United States, Baltimore
Space Telescope Science Institute
Ely, J.
United States, Baltimore
Space Telescope Science Institute
Jenness, Tim
United States, Honolulu
University Hawaii Institute for Astronomy
United States, Ithaca
Cornell University
Labrie, Kathleen
United States, Hilo
Gemini Observatory
Lim, P. L.
United States, Baltimore
Space Telescope Science Institute
Pierfederici, F.
United States, Baltimore
Space Telescope Science Institute
Pontzen, Andrew P.
United Kingdom, Oxford
University of Oxford
United Kingdom, London
University College London
Ptak, Andy
United States, Greenbelt
Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center
Refsdal, Brian
United States, Cambridge
Harvard-smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Servillat, Mathieu
United States, Cambridge
Harvard-smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
France, Gif-sur-yvette
Astrophysique, Instrumentation et Modélisation de Paris-saclay
Streicher, Ole
Germany, Potsdam
Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam
Statistics
Citations: 7,099
Authors: 44
Affiliations: 27
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1051/0004-6361/201322068
ISSN:
00046361
e-ISSN:
14320746