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

Abstract

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.

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• University of California, Berkeley US
• University of Wisconsin–Madison US
• Kirchhoff (Germany) DE
• Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari IT
• City University of New York US
• Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules FR
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory US
• Space Telescope Science Institute US
• Ames Research Center US
• California Institute of Technology US
• University College London GB
• Virginia Tech US
• Excellence Cluster Universe DE
• University of Bonn DE
• Drexel University US
• University of California, Davis US
• Institute of Nuclear Physics of Lyon FR
• Gemini North Observatory US
• European Southern Observatory DE
• Institut de Physique FR
• Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani IN
• Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 FR
• Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München DE
• Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique FR
• University of California, Irvine US
• Australian Astronomical Observatory AU
• École Normale Supérieure de Lyon FR
• Pennsylvania State University US
• Deleted Institution
• University of Cape Town ZA
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology US
• Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics CA
• Imperial College London GB
• University of California, Santa Barbara US
• Universidade Federal de Campina Grande BR
• Cardiff University GB
• Trieste Astronomical Observatory IT
• Max Planck Institute for Astronomy DE
• Delhi Technological University IN
• Western University CA
• Masaryk University CZ
• Scion NZ
• University of Missouri US
• National Radio Astronomy Observatory US
• Seoul National University KR
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory US
• University of Cambridge GB
• Hunter College US
• Ho Chi Minh City University of Science VN
• Flatiron Health (United States) US
• Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Corporation US
• American Museum of Natural History US
• Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City VN
• Centre de Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon FR
• Brown University US
• Infrared Processing and Analysis Center US
• Leiden University NL
• Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics DE
• University of Nottingham GB
• Ghent University BE
• Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian US
• Bay Area Environmental Research Institute US
• Flatiron Institute
• Universidade Federal do Rio Grande BR
• Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network US
• Princeton University US
• The Ohio State University US
• The Graduate Center, CUNY US
• University of Washington US
• Johns Hopkins University US
• Minnesota State University Moorhead US
• South African Radio Astronomy Observatory ZA
• Goddard Space Flight Center US
• Heidelberg University DE
• University of Sheffield GB
• Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté FR
• Universidad de Antofagasta CL
• National Institute for Astrophysics IT

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