The Astropy Project: Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package

DOI: 
10.3847/1538-4357/ac7c74
Publication date: 
08/08/2022
Main author: 
Astropy Collaboration
IAA authors: 
Pascual-Granado, J.
Authors: 
Astropy Collaboration;Price-Whelan, Adrian M.;Lim, Pey Lian;Earl, Nicholas;Starkman, Nathaniel;Bradley, Larry;Shupe, David L.;Patil, Aarya A.;Corrales, Lia;Brasseur, C. E.;Nöthe, Maximilian;Donath, Axel;Tollerud, Erik;Morris, Brett M.;Ginsburg, Adam;Vaher, Eero;Weaver, Benjamin A.;Tocknell, James;Jamieson, William;van Kerkwijk, Marten H.;Robitaille, Thomas P.;Merry, Bruce;Bachetti, Matteo;Günther, H. Moritz;Aldcroft, Thomas L.;Alvarado-Montes, Jaime A.;Archibald, Anne M.;Bódi, Attila;Bapat, Shreyas;Barentsen, Geert;Bazán, Juanjo;Biswas, Manish;Boquien, Médéric;Burke, D. J.;Cara, Daria;Cara, Mihai;Conroy, Kyle E.;Conseil, Simon;Craig, Matthew W.;Cross, Robert M.;Cruz, Kelle L.;D'Eugenio, Francesco;Dencheva, Nadia;Devillepoix, Hadrien A. R.;Dietrich, Jörg P.;Eigenbrot, Arthur Davis;Erben, Thomas;Ferreira, Leonardo;Foreman-Mackey, Daniel;Fox, Ryan;Freij, Nabil;Garg, Suyog;Geda, Robel;Glattly, Lauren;Gondhalekar, Yash;Gordon, Karl D.;Grant, David;Greenfield, Perry;Groener, Austen M.;Guest, Steve;Gurovich, Sebastian;Handberg, Rasmus;Hart, Akeem;Hatfield-Dodds, Zac;Homeier, Derek;Hosseinzadeh, Griffin;Jenness, Tim;Jones, Craig K.;Joseph, Prajwel;Kalmbach, J. Bryce;Karamehmetoglu, Emir;Kałuszyński, Mikołaj;Kelley, Michael S. P.;Kern, Nicholas;Kerzendorf, Wolfgang E.;Koch, Eric W.;Kulumani, Shankar;Lee, Antony;Ly, Chun;Ma, Zhiyuan;MacBride, Conor;Maljaars, Jakob M.;Muna, Demitri;Murphy, N. A.;Norman, Henrik;O'Steen, Richard;Oman, Kyle A.;Pacifici, Camilla;Pascual, Sergio;Pascual-Granado, J.;Patil, Rohit R.;Perren, Gabriel I.;Pickering, Timothy E.;Rastogi, Tanuj;Roulston, Benjamin R.;Ryan, Daniel F.;Rykoff, Eli S.;Sabater, Jose;Sakurikar, Parikshit;Salgado, Jesús;Sanghi, Aniket;Saunders, Nicholas;Savchenko, Volodymyr;Schwardt, Ludwig;Seifert-Eckert, Michael;Shih, Albert Y.;Jain, Anany Shrey;Shukla, Gyanendra;Sick, Jonathan;Simpson, Chris;Singanamalla, Sudheesh;Singer, Leo P.;Singhal, Jaladh;Sinha, Manodeep;Sipőcz, Brigitta M.;Spitler, Lee R.;Stansby, David;Streicher, Ole;Šumak, Jani;Swinbank, John D.;Taranu, Dan S.;Tewary, Nikita;Tremblay, Grant R.;Val-Borro, Miguel de;Van Kooten, Samuel J.;Vasović, Zlatan;Verma, Shresth;de Miranda Cardoso, José Vinícius;Williams, Peter K. G.;Wilson, Tom J.;Winkel, Benjamin;Wood-Vasey, W. M.;Xue, Rui;Yoachim, Peter;Zhang, Chen;Zonca, Andrea;Astropy Project Contributors
Journal: 
The Astrophysical Journal
Publication type: 
Article
Volume: 
935
Pages: 
167
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.
Database: 
ADS
URL: 
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2022ApJ...935..167A/abstract
ADS Bibcode: 
2022ApJ...935..167A
Keywords: 
Astronomy software;Open source software;Astronomy data analysis;1855;1866;1858;Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics