Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy

Date

2013

Authors

Robitaille, T P
Tollerud, Erik J
Greenfield, Perry
Droettboom, Michael
Bray, Erik
Aldcroft, Tom
Davis, Matt
Ginsburg, A. G.
Price-Whelan, Adrian M
Kerzendorf, Wolfgang

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Springer

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

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Keywords: Methods: miscellaneous; Methods:data analysis; Physical constants; Physical quantities; Point-spread functions; Virtual observatory; Virtual observatory tools; World coordinate systems; High level languages; Observatories; Optical transfer function; Tools Methods: data analysis; Methods: miscellaneous; Virtual observatory tools

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Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Journal article

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2037-12-31