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Publications (6)

astro-ph.IM2022

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

The Astropy Collaboration, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Pey Lian Lim +133

The Astropy Project supports and fosters the development of open-source and openly-developed Python packages that provide commonly needed functionality to the astronomical communit…

astro-ph.IM2015

Significant problems in FITS limit its use in modern astronomical research

Brian Thomas, Tim Jenness, Frossie Economou +11

The Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) standard has been a great boon to astronomy, allowing observatories, scientists and the public to exchange astronomical information easil…

astro-ph.IM2016

The Astropy Problem

Demitri Muna, Michael Alexander, Alice Allen +151

The Astropy Project (http://astropy.org) is, in its own words, "a community effort to develop a single core package for Astronomy in Python and foster interoperability between Pyth…

astro-ph.IM2012

Tiled Image Convention for Storing Compressed Images in FITS Binary Tables

Richard L. White, Perry Greenfield, William Pence +2

This document describes a convention for compressing n-dimensional images and storing the resulting byte stream in a variable-length column in a FITS binary table. The FITS file st…

astro-ph.IM2015

Learning from FITS: Limitations in use in modern astronomical research

Brian Thomas, Tim Jenness, Frossie Economou +35

The Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) standard has been a great boon to astronomy, allowing observatories, scientists and the public to exchange astronomical information easil…

astro-ph.IM2013

Astropy: A Community Python Package for Astronomy

The Astropy Collaboration, Thomas P. Robitaille, Erik J. Tollerud +42

We present the first public version (v0.2) of the open-source and community-developed Python package, Astropy. This package provides core astronomy-related functionality to the com…