Astropy: A Community Python Package for Astronomy
Abstract
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 active development, 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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@article{arxiv.1307.6212,
title = {Astropy: A Community Python Package for Astronomy},
author = {The Astropy Collaboration and Thomas P. Robitaille and Erik J. Tollerud and Perry Greenfield and Michael Droettboom and Erik Bray and Tom Aldcroft and Matt Davis and Adam Ginsburg and Adrian M. Price-Whelan and Wolfgang E. Kerzendorf and Alexander Conley and Neil Crighton and Kyle Barbary and Demitri Muna and Henry Ferguson and Frédéric Grollier and Madhura M. Parikh and Prasanth H. Nair and Hans M. Günther and Christoph Deil and Julien Woillez and Simon Conseil and Roban Kramer and James E. H. Turner and Leo Singer and Ryan Fox and Benjamin A. Weaver and Victor Zabalza and Zachary I. Edwards and K. Azalee Bostroem and D. J. Burke and Andrew R. Casey and Steven M. Crawford and Nadia Dencheva and Justin Ely and Tim Jenness and Kathleen Labrie and Pey Lian Lim and Francesco Pierfederici and Andrew Pontzen and Andy Ptak and Brian Refsdal and Mathieu Servillat and Ole Streicher},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.6212},
year = {2014}
}
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Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics. For more information about Astropy, visit http://www.astropy.org