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We present here the first release of the open-source python package ExoTETHyS, which aims to provide a stand-alone set of tools for modeling spectro-photometric observations of the transiting exoplanets. In particular, we describe: (1) a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 Giuseppe Morello , Antonio Claret , Marine Martin-Lagarde , Christophe Cossou , Angelos Tsiaras , Pierre-Olivier Lagage

Large amounts of Adaptive-Optics (AO) control loop data and telemetry are currently inaccessible to end-users. Broadening access to those data has the potential to change the AO landscape on many fronts, addressing several use-cases such as…

Gammapy is a Python package for high-level gamma-ray data analysis built on Numpy, Scipy and Astropy. It enables us to analyze gamma-ray data and to create sky images, spectra and lightcurves, from event lists and instrument response…

I describe the design, implementation, and usage of galpy, a Python package for galactic-dynamics calculations. At its core, galpy consists of a general framework for representing galactic potentials both in Python and in C (for accelerated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Jo Bovy

We present the description of the project \texttt{SCORPIO}, a Python package for retrieving images and associated data of galaxy pairs based on their position, facilitating visual analysis and data collation of multiple archetypal systems.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-09 Jose A. Benavides , Martín Chalela , Juan B. Cabral , Bruno O. Sánchez , Sebastian Gurovich

We present AstroPhot, a fast, powerful, and user-friendly Python based astronomical image photometry solver. AstroPhot incorporates automatic differentiation and GPU (or parallel CPU) acceleration, powered by the machine learning library…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-08 Connor Stone , Stephane Courteau , Jean-Charles Cuillandre , Yashar Hezaveh , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur , Nikhil Arora

The use of Python is noticeably growing among the scientific community, and Astronomy is not an exception. The power of Python consists of being an extremely versatile high-level language, easy to program that combines both traditional…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-16 Daniel M. Faes

We announce the public release of the application program interface (API) for the Open Astronomy Catalogs (OACs), the OACAPI. The OACs serve near-complete collections of supernova, tidal disruption, kilonova, and fast stars data (including…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-01 James Guillochon , Philip S. Cowperthwaite

The rapid growth in scale and complexity of both computational and observational astrophysics over the past decade necessitates efficient and intuitive methods for examining and visualizing large datasets. Here, I present {\it AstroBlend},…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-11 J. P. Naiman

Scientific open-source software (OSS) has greatly benefited research communities through its transparent and collaborative nature. Given its critical role in scientific research, ensuring the sustainability of such software has become…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Jiayi Sun , Aarya Patil , Youhai Li , Jin L. C. Guo , Shurui Zhou

We present Lenstronomy, a multi-purpose open-source gravitational lens modeling python package. Lenstronomy is able to reconstruct the lens mass and surface brightness distributions of strong lensing systems using forward modelling.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-14 Simon Birrer , Adam Amara

Visualizing and navigating through large astronomy images from a remote location with current astronomy display tools can be a frustrating experience in terms of speed and ergonomics, especially on mobile devices. In this paper, we present…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-06 Emmanuel Bertin , Ruven Pillay , Chiara Marmo

The usage of the high-level scripting language Python has enabled new mechanisms for data interrogation, discovery and visualization of scientific data. We present yt, an open source, community-developed astrophysical analysis and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-21 Matthew J. Turk , Britton D. Smith

New tools are needed to handle the growth of data in astrophysics delivered by recent and upcoming surveys. We aim to build open-source, light, flexible, and interactive software designed to visualize extensive three-dimensional (3D)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-26 M. Argudo-Fernández , S. Duarte Puertas , J. E. Ruiz , J. Sabater , S. Verley , G. Bergond

We present a python package "ScalPy" for studying the late time scalar field cosmology for a wide variety of scalar field models, namely the quintessence, tachyon and Galileon model. The package solves the autonomous system of equations for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-08 Sumit Kumar , Abhishek Jana , Anjan A. Sen

SciPy is an open source scientific computing library for the Python programming language. SciPy 1.0 was released in late 2017, about 16 years after the original version 0.1 release. SciPy has become a de facto standard for leveraging…

AOtools is a Python package which is open-source and aimed at providing tools for adaptive optics users and researchers. We present version 1.0 which contains tools for adaptive optics processing, including analysing data in the pupil…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 M. J. Townson , O. J. D. Farley , G. Orban de Xivry , J. Osborn , A. P. Reeves

PetroFit is an open-source Python package, based on Astropy and Photutils, that can calculate Petrosian profiles and fit galaxy images. It offers end-to-end tools for making accurate photometric measurements, estimating morphological…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-19 Robel Geda , Steven Crawford , Lucas R. Hunt , Matthew A. Bershady , Erik J. Tollerud , Solohery M. Randriamampandry

In this paper we show how advanced visualization tools can help the researcher in investigating and extracting information from data. The focus is on VisIVO, a novel open source graphics application, which blends high performance…

The era of multi-messenger astrophysics requires rapid and efficient follow-up of transient events, many of which, such as gravitational waves (GW), gamma-ray bursts (GRB), and high-energy neutrinos, suffer from poor sky localisation. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Fabian Schüssler , H. Ashkar , W. Kiendrébéogo , M. Seglar-Arroyo , M. de Bony , A. Berti , E. Ruiz-Velasco , R. Le Montagner