The Astropy Project: Building an Open-science Project and Status of the v2.0 Core Package The author list has three parts: the authors that made significant contributions to the writing of the paper in order of contribution, the four members of the Astropy Project coordination committee, and contributors to the Astropy Project in alphabetical order. Their position in the author list does not correspond to contributions to the Astropy Project as a whole. A more complete list of contributors to th

• Published in: The Astronomical journal Vol. 156; no. 3
• Main Authors: Sip cz, B. M., Lim, P. L., Crawford, S. M., Shupe, D. L., Craig, M. W., Ginsburg, A., VanderPlas, J. T., Pérez-Suárez, D., de Val-Borro, M., Aldcroft, T. L., Cruz, K. L., Robitaille, T. P., Tollerud, E. J., Babej, T., Bach, Y. P., Barentsen, G., Barmby, P., Baumbach, A., Berry, K. L., Biscani, F., Bouma, L. G., Bray, E. M., Breytenbach, H., Buddelmeijer, H., Burke, D. J., Calderone, G., Rodríguez, J. L. Cano, Cara, M., Cardoso, J. V. M., Cheedella, S., Corrales, L., Crichton, D., Depagne, É., Dietrich, J. P., Donath, A., Droettboom, M., Earl, N., Fabbro, S., Garrison, L. H., Gibbons, S. L. J., Gommers, R., Greenfield, P., Groener, A. M., Grollier, F., Hagen, A., Hirst, P., Homeier, D., Horton, A. J., Hosseinzadeh, G., Hu, L., Ivezi, ., Jenness, T., Kanarek, G., Kendrew, S., Kern, N. S., Kerzendorf, W. E., Khvalko, A., King, J., Kirkby, D., Kulkarni, A. M., Kumar, A., Lee, A., Lenz, D., Littlefair, S. P., Ma, Z., Macleod, D. M., Mastropietro, M., McCully, C., Mueller, M., Muna, D., Ninan, J. P., Nöthe, M., Oh, S., Parejko, J. K., Parley, N., Pascual, S., Patil, R., Plunkett, A. L., Prochaska, J. X., Sabater, J., Sakurikar, P., Seifert, M., Sherbert, L. E., Sherwood-Taylor, H., Sick, J., Silbiger, M. T., Singanamalla, S., Singer, L. P., Sladen, P. H., Sooley, K. A., Sornarajah, S., Streicher, O., Thomas, S. W., Tremblay, G. R., Kerkwijk, M. H. van, de la Vega, A., Weaver, B. A., Whitmore, J. B., Woillez, J., Zabalza, V.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: The American Astronomical Society 24.08.2018
• Subjects: methods: data analysis; methods: miscellaneous; methods: statistical; reference systems

The Astropy Project supports and fosters the development of open-source and openly developed Python packages that provide commonly needed functionality to the astronomical community. A key element of the Astropy Project is the core package astropy, which serves as the foundation for more specialized...