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most citedThe Astropy Project: Building an inclusive, open-science project and status of the v2.0 core package

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astro-ph.IM2024

Joint Deconvolution of Astronomical Images in the Presence of Poisson Noise

Axel Donath, Aneta Siemiginowska, Vinay L. Kashyap +2

We present a new method for joint likelihood deconvolution (Jolideco) of a set of astronomical observations of the same sky region in the presence of Poisson noise. The observation…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 98 cited

Gammapy: A Python package for gamma-ray astronomy

Axel Donath, Régis Terrier, Quentin Remy +42

In this article, we present Gammapy, an open-source Python package for the analysis of astronomical -ray data, and illustrate the functionalities of its first long-term-support…

astro-ph.IM2023

Gammapy: present status and future roadmap

B. Khélifi, R. Terrier, A. Donath +3

Since its start in 2014, the lightweight open source Python library Gammapy has come a long way to become a popular data analysis package for high-energy astrophysics. Selected as…

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.IM2022★ 1 cited

Validation of standardized data formats and tools for ground-level particle-based gamma-ray observatories

A. Albert, R. Alfaro, J. C. Arteaga-Velázquez +74

Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy is still a rather young field of research, with strong historical connections to particle physics. This is why most observations are conducted by e…

astro-ph.IM2021

Standardized Formats for Gamma-Ray Analysis Applied to HAWC Observatory Data

Laura Olivera-Nieto, Vikas Joshi, Harm Schoorlemmer +1

A wide range of data formats and proprietary software have traditionally been used in gamma-ray astronomy, usually developed for a single specific mission or experiment. However, i…

astro-ph.IM2021

Science verification of the new FlashCam-based camera in the 28m telescope of H.E.S.S

Gerd Pühlhofer, Konrad Bernlöhr, Baiyang Bi +13

In October 2019 the central 28m telescope of the H.E.S.S. experiment has been upgraded with a new camera. The camera is based on the FlashCam design which has been developed in vie…

astro-ph.IM2021

Astronomy outreach in Namibia: H.E.S.S. and beyond

Hannah Dalgleish, Heike Prokoph, Sylvia Zhu +6

Astronomy plays a major role in the scientific landscape of Namibia. Because of its excellent sky conditions, Namibia is home to ground-based observatories like the High Energy Spe…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 28 cited

TeV emission of Galactic plane sources with HAWC and H.E.S.S

H. Abdalla, F. Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali +318

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory and the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) are two leading instruments in the ground-based very-high-energy gamma-ray d…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 7.7k cited

The Astropy Project: Building an inclusive, open-science project and status of the v2.0 core package

The Astropy Collaboration, A. M. Price-Whelan, B. M. Sipőcz +134

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.IM2017★ 1 cited

gamma-sky.net: Portal to the Gamma-Ray Sky

Arjun Voruganti, Christoph Deil, Axel Donath +1

Gamma-sky.net is a novel interactive website designed for exploring the gamma-ray sky. The Map View portion of the site is powered by the Aladin Lite sky atlas, providing a scalabl…

astro-ph.IM2017

Gammapy - A prototype for the CTA science tools

Christoph Deil, Roberta Zanin, Julien Lefaucheur +27

Gammapy is a Python package for high-level gamma-ray data analysis built on Numpy, Scipy and Astropy. It enables us to analyze gamma-ray data and to create sky images, spectra and…

astro-ph.IM2015

Gammapy - A Python package for γ-ray astronomy

Axel Donath, Christoph Deil, Manuel Paz Arribas +7

In the past decade imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope arrays such as H.E.S.S., MAGIC, VERITAS, as well as the Fermi-LAT space telescope have provided us with detailed images a…