TY - JOUR
T1 - Astropy
T2 - A community Python package for astronomy
AU - Robitaille, Thomas P.
AU - Tollerud, Erik J.
AU - Greenfield, Perry
AU - Droettboom, Michael
AU - Bray, Erik
AU - Aldcroft, Tom
AU - Davis, Matt
AU - Ginsburg, Adam
AU - Price-Whelan, Adrian M.
AU - Kerzendorf, Wolfgang E.
AU - Conley, Alexander
AU - Crighton, Neil
AU - Barbary, Kyle
AU - Muna, Demitri
AU - Ferguson, Henry C
AU - Grollier, Frédéric
AU - Parikh, Madhura M.
AU - Nair, Prasanth H.
AU - Günther, Hans M.
AU - Deil, Christoph
AU - Casey, Andrew R.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Methods: data analysis
KW - Methods: miscellaneous
KW - Virtual observatory tools
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84885015664&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1051/0004-6361/201322068
DO - 10.1051/0004-6361/201322068
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84885015664
SN - 0004-6361
VL - 558
JO - Astronomy & Astrophysics
JF - Astronomy & Astrophysics
M1 - A33
ER -