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

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astro-ph.IM2022★ 5k cited

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.IM2019★ 1 cited

The Growing Importance of a Tech Savvy Astronomy and Astrophysics Workforce

Dara Norman, Kelle Cruz, Vandana Desai +26

Fundamental coding and software development skills are increasingly necessary for success in nearly every aspect of astronomical and astrophysical research as large surveys and hig…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 127 cited

Pandeia: A Multi-mission Exposure Time Calculator for JWST and WFIRST

Klaus M. Pontoppidan, Timothy E. Pickering, Victoria G. Laidler +12

Pandeia is the exposure time calculator (ETC) system developed for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) that will be used for creating JWST proposals. It includes a simulation-hyb…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 12 cited

High-Resolution Altitude Profiles of the Atmospheric Turbulence with PML at the Sutherland Observatory

L. Catala, A. Ziad, Y. Fantei-Caujolle +6

With the prospect of the next generation of ground-based telescopes, the extremely large telescopes (ELTs), increasingly complex and demanding adaptive optics (AO) systems are need…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 5 cited

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.IM2013★ 19 cited

Optical turbulence characterization at the SAAO Sutherland site

Laure Catala, Steven M. Crawford, David A. H. Buckley +7

We present results from the first year of a campaign to characterize and monitor the optical turbulence profile at the SAAO Sutherland observing station in South Africa. A MASS-DIM…