The Astropy Project: Building an Open-science Project and Status of the v2.0 Core Package

DOI: 
10.3847/1538-3881/aabc4f
Publication date: 
20/09/2018
Main author: 
Price-Whelan A.M.
IAA authors: 
Terrón, V.
Authors: 
Price-Whelan A.M., Sipõcz B.M., Günther H.M., Lim P.L., Crawford S.M., Conseil S., Shupe D.L., Craig M.W., Dencheva N., Ginsburg A., Vanderplas J.T., Bradley L.D., Pérez-Suárez D., De Val-Borro M., Aldcroft T.L., Cruz K.L., Robitaille T.P., Tollerud E.J., Ardelean C., Babej T., Bach Y.P., Bachetti M., Bakanov A.V., Bamford S.P., Barentsen G., Barmby P., Baumbach A., Berry K.L., Biscani F., Boquien M., Bostroem K.A., Bouma L.G., Brammer G.B., Bray E.M., Breytenbach H., Buddelmeijer H., Burke D.J., Calderone G., Rodríguez J.L.C., Cara M., Cardoso J.V.M., Cheedella S., Copin Y., Corrales L., Crichton D., D'Avella D., Deil C., Depagne É., Dietrich J.P., Donath A., Droettboom M., Earl N., Erben T., Fabbro S., Ferreira L.A., Finethy T., Fox R.T., Garrison L.H., Gibbons S.L.J., Goldstein D.A., Gommers R., Greco J.P., Greenfield P., Groener A.M., Grollier F., Hagen A., Hirst P., Homeier D., Horton A.J., Hosseinzadeh G., Hu L., Hunkeler J.S., Ivezić Ž., Jain A., Jenness T., Kanarek G., Kendrew S., Kern N.S., Kerzendorf W.E., Khvalko A., King J., Kirkby D., Kulkarni A.M., Kumar A., Lee A., Lenz D., Littlefair S.P., Ma Z., MacLeod D.M., Mastropietro M., McCully C., Montagnac S., Morris B.M., Mueller M., Mumford S.J., Muna D., Murphy N.A., Nelson S., Nguyen G.H., Ninan J.P., Nöthe M., Ogaz S., Oh S., Parejko J.K., Parley N., Pascual S., Patil R., Patil A.A., Plunkett A.L., Prochaska J.X., Rastogi T., Janga V.R., Sabater J., Sakurikar P., Seifert M., Sherbert L.E., Sherwood-Taylor H., Shih A.Y., Sick J., Silbiger M.T., Singanamalla S., Singer L.P., Sladen P.H., Sooley K.A., Sornarajah S., Streicher O., Teuben P., Thomas S.W., Tremblay G.R., Turner J.E.H., Terrón V., Kerkwijk M.H.V., De La Vega A., Watkins L.L., Weaver B.A., Whitmore J.B., Woillez J., Zabalza V., Primary Paper Contributors, Astropy Coordination Committee
Journal: 
Astronomical Journal
Publication type: 
Article
Volume: 
156
Pages: 
123
Number: 
123
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 interoperable packages. We conclude with a future outlook of planned new features and directions for the broader Astropy Project. © 2018. The American Astronomical Society.
Database: 
SCOPUS
ADS
URL: 
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2018AJ....156..123A/abstract
ADS Bibcode: 
2018AJ....156..123A
Keywords: 
methods: data analysis; methods: miscellaneous; methods: statistical; reference systems