Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy
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...
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Published in | Astronomy and astrophysics (Berlin) Vol. 558; p. A33 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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EDP Sciences
01.10.2013
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Summary: | 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. |
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Bibliography: | dkey:10.1051/0004-6361/201322068 istex:EF5D0680D8FE4E6337BD9CE87FF71C4A873ED109 bibcode:2013A%26A...558A..33A ark:/67375/80W-CT4JDT1K-G publisher-ID:aa22068-13 e-mail: robitaille@mpia.de |
ISSN: | 0004-6361 1432-0746 1432-0756 |
DOI: | 10.1051/0004-6361/201322068 |