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Astropy
Astropy is a collection of software packages written in the Python programming language and designed for use in astronomy.1 The software is a single, free, core package for astronomical utilities due to the increasingly widespread usage of Python by astronomers, and to foster interoperability between various extant Python astronomy packages.2 Astropy is included in several large Python distributions; it is listed in package managers for Linux and macOS,345 the Anaconda Python Distribution, Enthought Canopy and Ureka.6
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Robitaille, Thomas P.; Tollerud, Erik J.; et al. (2013). “Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy”. Astronomy & Astrophysics. 558: A33. arXiv:1307.6212. Bibcode:2013A&A…558A..33A. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201322068. S2CID 26378335. ↩
Simpson, Robert A.; et al. (2013). “Unproceedings of the Fourth.Astronomy Conference, Heidelberg, Germany, July 9–11 2012”. arXiv:1301.5193 [astro-ph.IM]. ↩
“Package: python-astropy (0.2.4-3)”. Debian. ↩
“py-astropy 0.2.5”. MacPorts. ↩
“astropy-py33”. Fink. ↩
“Ureka Sources”. Space Telescope Science Institute. ↩
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