The Astropy Project: Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the 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 summarize key features in the core package as of the recent major release, version 5.0, and provide major updates on the Project. We then discuss supporting a broader ecosystem of interoperable packages, including connections with several astronomical observatories and missions. We also revisit the future outlook of the Astropy Project and the current status of Learn Astropy. We conclude by raising and discussing the current and future challenges facing the Project.

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Affiliated Institutions

• NSF NOIRLab US
• Indian Institute of Astrophysics IN
• Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari IT
• Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani - Goa Campus IN
• Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory US
• Space Telescope Science Institute US
• California Institute of Technology US
• Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology US
• Aix-Marseille Université FR
• Newcastle University GB
• University of Toronto CA
• University of Bonn DE
• Drexel University US
• Australian National University AU
• Polish Academy of Sciences PL
• Wake Forest University US
• SKA Observatory GB
• Savitribai Phule Pune University IN
• Michigan State University US
• Macquarie University AU
• Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique FR
• Science and Technology Corporation (Netherlands) NL
• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign US
• Australian Astronomical Observatory AU
• National Solar Observatory US
• University of Arizona US
• Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics CA
• University of St Andrews GB
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology US
• Rutherford Appleton Laboratory GB
• Argentine National Observatory AR
• City University of Seattle US
• American University US
• University of Florida US
• TU Dortmund University DE
• Laboratoire Photonique, Numérique et Nanosciences FR
• Queen's University Belfast GB
• Konkoly Observatory HU
• The University of Texas at San Antonio US
• Durham University GB
• Syracuse University US
• FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts CH
• Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía ES
• International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad IN
• TMT Observatory US
• UK Astronomy Technology Centre GB
• Stuttgart Observatory DE
• Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center PL
• University of Cambridge GB
• Hunter College US
• Flatiron Health (United States) US
• Curtin University AU
• Aarhus University DK
• Universidad Complutense de Madrid ES
• American Museum of Natural History US
• Lockheed Martin (United States) US
• Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas AR
• Infrared Processing and Analysis Center US
• Lund University SE
• University of Oxford GB
• Boston University US
• Centro de Astrobiología ES
• University of Nottingham GB
• Instituto de Astronomía Teórica y Experimental AR
• Indian Institute of Technology Mandi IN
• University of Bristol GB
• Instituto de Astrofísica de La Plata
• University of Maryland, College Park US
• Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian US
• Bay Area Environmental Research Institute US
• University of Massachusetts Amherst US
• Flatiron Institute
• SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory US
• Princeton University US
• University of Michigan US
• University of Bern CH
• Université de Bordeaux FR
• Christ University IN
• Royal Observatory GB
• Johns Hopkins University US
• University of Washington US
• Minnesota State University Moorhead US
• South African Radio Astronomy Observatory ZA
• The University of Tokyo JP
• Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences HU
• Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté FR
• Universidad de Antofagasta CL
• National Institute for Astrophysics IT

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