The astropy project: building an inclusive, open-science project and status of the v2.0 core package

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...

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Main Authors:	Price-Whelan, Adrian M. (Author) , Homeier, Derek (Author) , Baumbach, Andreas (Author)
Format:	Article (Journal) Chapter/Article
Language:	English
Published:	16 Jan 2018
In:	Arxiv
Online Access:	Verlag, Volltext: http://arxiv.org/abs/1801.02634
Author Notes:	the astropy collaboration, A.M. Price-Whelan, B.M. Sipócz, H.M. Günther, P.L. Lim, S.M. Crawford, S. Conseil, D.L. Shupe, M.W. Craig, N. Dencheva, A. Ginsburg, J.T. VanderPlas, L.D. Bradley, D. Pérez-Suárez, and M. de Val-Borro, (primary paper contributors) T.L. Aldcroft, K.L. Cruz, T.P. Robitaille, and E.J. Tollerud (astropy coordination committee), C. Ardelean, T. Babej, M. Bachetti, A.V. Bakanov, S.P. Bamford, G. Barentsen, P. Barmby, A. Baumbach, K.L. Berry, F. Biscani, M. Boquien, K.A. Bostroem, L.G. Bouma, G.B. Brammer, E.M. Bray, H. Breytenbach, H. Buddelmeijer, D.J. Burke, G. Calderone, J.L. Cano Rodríguez, M. Cara, J.V.M. Cardoso, S. Cheedella, Y. Copin, D. Crichton, D. D'Avella, C. Deil, É. Depagne, J.P. Dietrich, A. Donath, M. Droettboom, N. Earl, T. Erben, S. Fabbro, L.A. Ferreira, T. Finethy, R.T. Fox, L.H. Garrison, S.L.J. Gibbons, D.A. Goldstein, R. Gommers, J.P. Greco, P. Greenfield, A.M. Groener, F. Grollier, A. Hagen, P. Hirst, D. Homeier, A.J. Horton, G. Hosseinzadeh, L. Hu, J.S. Hunkeler, Ž. Ivezić, A. Jain, T. Jenness, G. Kanarek, S. Kendrew, N.S. Kern, W.E. Kerzendorf, A. Khvalko, J. King, D. Kirkby, A.M. Kulkarni, A. Kumar, A. Lee, D. Lenz, S.P. Littlefair, Z. Ma, D.M. Macleod, M. Mastropietro, C. McCully, S. Montagnac, B.M. Morris, M. Mueller, S.J. Mumford, D. Muna, N.A. Murphy, S. Nelson, G.H. Nguyen, J.P. Ninan, M. Nöthe, S. Ogaz, S. Oh, J.K. Parejko, N. Parley, S. Pascual, R. Patil, A.A. Patil, A.L. Plunkett, J.X. Prochaska, T. Rastogi, V. Reddy Janga, J. Sabater, P. Sakurikar, M. Seifert, L.E. Sherbert, H. Sherwood-Taylor, A.Y. Shih, J. Sick, M.T. Silbiger, S. Singanamalla, L.P. Singer, P.H. Sladen, K.A. Sooley, S. Sornarajah, O. Streicher, P. Teuben, S.W. Thomas, G.R. Tremblay, J.E.H. Turner, V. Terrón, M.H. van Kerkwijk, A. de la Vega, L.L. Watkins, B.A. Weaver, J.B. Whitmore, J. Woillez, and V. Zabalza