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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…
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…
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…
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…