The Astropy Project: Building an Open-science Project and Status of the v2.0 Core Package
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.
.- Publication:
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The Astronomical Journal
- Pub Date:
- September 2018
- DOI:
- 10.3847/1538-3881/aabc4f
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1801.02634
- Bibcode:
- 2018AJ....156..123A
- Keywords:
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- methods: data analysis;
- methods: miscellaneous;
- methods: statistical;
- reference systems;
- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- Minor changes to author list and title. Comments and feedback welcome through the paper source repository: https://github.com/astropy/astropy-v2.0-paper For more information about Astropy, see http://www.astropy.org/