The Astropy Project: Building an inclusive, open-science project and status of the v2.0 core package
Creators: name: The Astropy Collaboration
name: Price-Whelan, A. M.
name: Sipőcz, B. M.
name: Günther, H. M.
name: Lim, P. L.
name: Crawford, S. M.
name: Conseil, S.
name: Shupe, D. L.
name: Craig, M. W.
name: Dencheva, N.
name: Ginsburg, A.
name: VanderPlas, J. T.
name: Bradley, L. D.
name: Pérez-Suárez, D.
name: de Val-Borro, M.
name: Aldcroft, T. L.
name: Cruz, K. L.
name: Robitaille, T. P.
name: Tollerud, E. J.
name: Ardelean, C.
name: Babej, T.
name: Bachetti, M.
name: Bakanov, A. V.
name: Bamford, S. P.
name: Barentsen, G.
name: Barmby, P.
name: Baumbach, A.
name: Berry, K. L.
name: Biscani, F.
name: Boquien, M.
name: Bostroem, K. A.
name: Bouma, L. G.
name: Brammer, G. B.
name: Bray, E. M.
name: Breytenbach, H.
name: Buddelmeijer, H.
name: Burke, D. J.
name: Calderone, G.
name: Rodríguez, J. L. Cano
name: Cara, M.
name: Cardoso, J. V. M.
name: Cheedella, S.
name: Copin, Y.
name: Crichton, D.
name: DÁvella, D.
name: Deil, C.
name: Depagne, É.
name: Dietrich, J. P.
name: Donath, A.
name: Droettboom, M.
name: Earl, N.
name: Erben, T.
name: Fabbro, S.
name: Ferreira, L. A.
name: Finethy, T.
name: Fox, R. T.
name: Garrison, L. H.
name: Gibbons, S. L. J.
name: Goldstein, D. A.
name: Gommers, R.
name: Greco, J. P.
name: Greenfield, P.
name: Groener, A. M.
name: Grollier, F.
name: Hagen, A.
name: Hirst, P.
name: Homeier, D.
name: Horton, A. J.
name: Hosseinzadeh, G.
name: Hu, L.
name: Hunkeler, J. S.
name: Ivezić, Ž.
name: Jain, A.
name: Jenness, T.
name: Kanarek, G.
name: Kendrew, S.
name: Kern, N. S.
name: Kerzendorf, W. E.
name: Khvalko, A.
name: King, J.
name: Kirkby, D.
name: Kulkarni, A. M.
name: Kumar, A.
name: Lee, A.
name: Lenz, D.
name: Littlefair, S. P.
name: Ma, Z.
name: Macleod, D. M.
name: Mastropietro, M.
name: McCully, C.
name: Montagnac, S.
name: Morris, B. M.
name: Mueller, M.
name: Mumford, S. J.
name: Muna, D.
name: Murphy, N. A.
name: Nelson, S.
name: Nguyen, G. H.
name: Ninan, J. P.
name: Nöthe, M.
name: Ogaz, S.
name: Oh, S.
name: Parejko, J. K.
name: Parley, N.
name: Pascual, S.
name: Patil, R.
name: Patil, A. A.
name: Plunkett, A. L.
name: Prochaska, J. X.
name: Rastogi, T.
name: Janga, V. Reddy
name: Sabater, J.
name: Sakurikar, P.
name: Seifert, M.
name: Sherbert, L. E.
name: Sherwood-Taylor, H.
name: Shih, A. Y.
name: Sick, J.
name: Silbiger, M. T.
name: Singanamalla, S.
name: Singer, L. P.
name: Sladen, P. H.
name: Sooley, K. A.
name: Sornarajah, S.
name: Streicher, O.
name: Teuben, P.
name: Thomas, S. W.
name: Tremblay, G. R.
name: Turner, J. E. H.
name: Terrón, V.
name: van Kerkwijk, M. H.
name: de la Vega, A.
name: Watkins, L. L.
name: Weaver, B. A.
name: Whitmore, J. B.
name: Woillez, J.
name: Zabalza, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: 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 provide an overview of the organization of the Astropy project and summarize key features in the core package as of the recent major release, version 2.0. We then describe the project infrastructure designed to facilitate and support development for a broader ecosystem of inter-operable packages. We conclude with a future outlook of planned new features and directions for the broader Astropy project.
description: Minor changes to author list and title. Comments and feedback welcome through the paper source repository: https://github.com/astropy/astropy-v2.0-paper For more information about Astropy, see http://www.astropy.org/