The Astropy Project: building an open-science project and status of the v2.0 core package

Price-Whelan, A.M.; Sipőcz, 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.; Bamford, S.P.

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 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.

Citation

Price-Whelan, A., Sipőcz, B., Günther, H., Lim, P., Crawford, S., Conseil, S., Shupe, D., Craig, M., Dencheva, N., Ginsburg, A., VanderPlas, J., Bradley, L., Pérez-Suárez, D., de Val-Borro, M., Aldcroft, T., Cruz, K., Robitaille, T., Tollerud, E., & Bamford, S. (2018). The Astropy Project: building an open-science project and status of the v2.0 core package. Astronomical Journal, 156(3), Article 123. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aabc4f

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Mar 29, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Aug 24, 2018
• Publication Date: Aug 24, 2018
• Deposit Date: Sep 28, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 28, 2018
• Journal: Astronomical Journal
• Print ISSN: 0004-6256
• Electronic ISSN: 1538-3881
• Publisher: American Astronomical Society
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 156
• Issue: 3
• Article Number: 123
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aabc4f
• Keywords: data analysis – methods: miscellaneous; methods: statistical – reference systems
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1138830
• Publisher URL: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aabc4f/meta
• Additional Information: 137 authors in total.