Astronomy and Astrophysics· 2013Q1
Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy
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Short summary
The first public version (v0.2) of Astropy, an open-source Python package, has been released, offering core astronomy functionalities to the scientific community.
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Key points
- Astropy v0.2 is the first public release of a community-developed Python package for astronomy.
- It includes core functionalities like FITS file support, unit conversions, and celestial coordinate transformations.
- Features for cosmological calculations and data handling are also integrated.
- Active development is ongoing for advanced tools such as model fitting and photometry.
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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 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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