The Astropy Project: Sustaining and Growing a Community-oriented Open-source Project and the Latest Major Release (v5.0) of the Core Package
Creators: name: The Astropy Collaboration
name: Price-Whelan, Adrian M.
name: Lim, Pey Lian
name: Earl, Nicholas
name: Starkman, Nathaniel
name: Bradley, Larry
name: Shupe, David L.
name: Patil, Aarya A.
name: Corrales, Lia
name: Brasseur, C. E.
name: Nöthe, Maximilian
name: Donath, Axel
name: Tollerud, Erik
name: Morris, Brett M.
name: Ginsburg, Adam
name: Vaher, Eero
name: Weaver, Benjamin A.
name: Tocknell, James
name: Jamieson, William
name: van Kerkwijk, Marten H.
name: Robitaille, Thomas P.
name: Merry, Bruce
name: Bachetti, Matteo
name: Günther, H. Moritz
name: Aldcroft, Thomas L.
name: Alvarado-Montes, Jaime A.
name: Archibald, Anne M.
name: Bódi, Attila
name: Bapat, Shreyas
name: Barentsen, Geert
name: Bazán, Juanjo
name: Biswas, Manish
name: Boquien, Médéric
name: Burke, D. J.
name: Cara, Daria
name: Cara, Mihai
name: Conroy, Kyle E
name: Conseil, Simon
name: Craig, Matthew W.
name: Cross, Robert M.
name: Cruz, Kelle L.
name: D'Eugenio, Francesco
name: Dencheva, Nadia
name: Devillepoix, Hadrien A. R.
name: Dietrich, Jörg P.
name: Eigenbrot, Arthur Davis
name: Erben, Thomas
name: Ferreira, Leonardo
name: Foreman-Mackey, Daniel
name: Fox, Ryan
name: Freij, Nabil
name: Garg, Suyog
name: Geda, Robel
name: Glattly, Lauren
name: Gondhalekar, Yash
name: Gordon, Karl D.
name: Grant, David
name: Greenfield, Perry
name: Groener, Austen M.
name: Guest, Steve
name: Gurovich, Sebastian
name: Handberg, Rasmus
name: Hart, Akeem
name: Hatfield-Dodds, Zac
name: Homeier, Derek
name: Hosseinzadeh, Griffin
name: Jenness, Tim
name: Jones, Craig K.
name: Joseph, Prajwel
name: Kalmbach, J. Bryce
name: Karamehmetoglu, Emir
name: Kałuszyński, Mikołaj
name: Kelley, Michael S. P.
name: Kern, Nicholas
name: Kerzendorf, Wolfgang E.
name: Koch, Eric W.
name: Kulumani, Shankar
name: Lee, Antony
name: Ly, Chun
name: Ma, Zhiyuan
name: MacBride, Conor
name: Maljaars, Jakob M.
name: Muna, Demitri
name: Murphy, N. A.
name: Norman, Henrik
name: O'Steen, Richard
name: Oman, Kyle A.
name: Pacifici, Camilla
name: Pascual, Sergio
name: Pascual-Granado, J.
name: Patil, Rohit R.
name: Perren, Gabriel I
name: Pickering, Timothy E.
name: Rastogi, Tanuj
name: Roulston, Benjamin R.
name: Ryan, Daniel F
name: Rykoff, Eli S.
name: Sabater, Jose
name: Sakurikar, Parikshit
name: Salgado, Jesús
name: Sanghi, Aniket
name: Saunders, Nicholas
name: Savchenko, Volodymyr
name: Schwardt, Ludwig
name: Seifert-Eckert, Michael
name: Shih, Albert Y.
name: Jain, Anany Shrey
name: Shukla, Gyanendra
name: Sick, Jonathan
name: Simpson, Chris
name: Singanamalla, Sudheesh
name: Singer, Leo P.
name: Singhal, Jaladh
name: Sinha, Manodeep
name: Sipőcz, Brigitta M.
name: Spitler, Lee R.
name: Stansby, David
name: Streicher, Ole
name: Šumak, Jani
name: Swinbank, John D.
name: Taranu, Dan S.
name: Tewary, Nikita
name: Tremblay, Grant R.
name: de Val-Borro, Miguel
name: Van Kooten, Samuel J.
name: Vasović, Zlatan
name: Verma, Shresth
name: Cardoso, José Vinícius de Miranda
name: Williams, Peter K. G.
name: Wilson, Tom J.
name: Winkel, Benjamin
name: Wood-Vasey, W. M.
name: Xue, Rui
name: Yoachim, Peter
name: ZHANG, Chen
name: Zonca, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
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 $\texttt{astropy}$, which serves as the foundation for more specialized projects and packages. In this article, we summarize key features in the core package as of the recent major release, version 5.0, and provide major updates for the Project. We then discuss supporting a broader ecosystem of interoperable packages, including connections with several astronomical observatories and missions. We also revisit the future outlook of the Astropy Project and the current status of Learn Astropy. We conclude by raising and discussing the current and future challenges facing the Project.
description: 43 pages, 5 figures. To appear in ApJ. The author list has two parts: the authors that made significant contributions to the writing and/or coordination of the paper, followed by maintainers of and contributors to the Astropy Project. The position in the author list does not correspond to contributions to the Astropy Project as a whole