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

Journal

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 935, Issue 2, Pages -

Publisher

IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac7c74

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Funding

  1. Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
  2. NASA [80NSSC22K0347]
  3. Gemini Observatory, a program of NSF's NOIRLab
  4. NumFOCUS
  5. Python Software Foundation
  6. Macquarie University through the International Macquarie University Research Excellence Scholarship (iMQRES)
  7. Lendulet Program of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences [LP2018-7]
  8. Hungarian Research, Development and Innovation Office (NKFIH) [KKP-137523]
  9. ANID BASAL project [FB210003]
  10. FONDECYT [1211000]
  11. H2020 ERC Consolidator grant [683184]
  12. ERC [695671]
  13. Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
  14. Danish National Research Foundation [DNRF106]
  15. MIT Pappalardo fellowship
  16. European Research Council (ERC) through Advanced Investigator grant [GA 786910]
  17. Canadian Space Agency
  18. NRC Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics
  19. Spanish MINECO-FEDER grant [RTI2018096188-B-I00]
  20. Spanish public funds from the Programas Estatales de Generacion de Conocimiento y Fortalecimiento Cientifico y Tecnologico del Sistema de I+D+i y de I+D+i Orientada a los Retos de la Sociedad [PID2019107061GB-C63]
  21. State Agency for Research of the Spanish MCIU through the Center of Excellence Severo Ochoa award [SEV-2017-0709]
  22. National Science Foundation through the Graduate Research Fellowship Program [1842402]
  23. international Gemini Observatory, a program of NSF's NOIRLab
  24. Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astro-physics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO 3D) [CE170100013]
  25. STFC [ST/S000240/1]
  26. Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Canadian Graduate Scholarship-Doctoral Program [CGSD547212020]
  27. Google
  28. Division Of Graduate Education
  29. Direct For Education and Human Resources [1842402] Funding Source: National Science Foundation

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The Astropy Project is an open-source Python package that provides commonly needed functionality to the astronomical community. Its core package, astropy, serves as the foundation for specialized projects and packages. This article summarizes the key features of the core package and provides updates on the project. It also discusses the connections with astronomical observatories and missions, and the future outlook and challenges of the Astropy Project.
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 summarize key features in the core package as of the recent major release, version 5.0, and provide major updates on 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.

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