Collaboration, T.A., Price-Whelan, A.M., Sipőcz, B.M. et al. (134 more authors) (2018) The Astropy Project: Building an inclusive, open-science project and status of the v2.0 core package. The Astronomical Journal, 156 (3). 123. ISSN 0004-6256
Abstract
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 projects and packages. In this article, we provide an overview of the organization of the Astropy project and summarize key features in the core package as of the recent major release, version 2.0. We then describe the project infrastructure designed to facilitate and support development for a broader ecosystem of inter-operable packages. We conclude with a future outlook of planned new features and directions for the broader Astropy project.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 The American Astronomical Society. Original content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI. |
Keywords: | Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Physics and Astronomy (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL ST/M001350/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 03 May 2018 10:16 |
Last Modified: | 30 Apr 2020 13:07 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | American Astronomical Society |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.3847/1538-3881/aabc4f |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:130174 |
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