[SciPy-User] ANN: Astropy v1.0 released

[Erik Petigura]

Dear Astropy Team,

Thanks for all your hard work developing this extraordinary package. I use it extensively in my research involving extrasolar planets. 

Many Thanks,

Erik


On Feb 19, 2015, at 7:18 AM, Thomas Robitaille <thomas.robitaille at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
> 
> We are very happy to announce the fourth major public release (v1.0)
> of the astropy package, a core Python package for Astronomy:
> 
>     http://www.astropy.org
> 
> Astropy is a community-driven Python package intended to contain much
> of the core functionality and common tools needed for astronomy and
> astrophysics.
> 
> New and improved major functionality in this release includes:
> 
> * Support for Altitude/Azimuth and Galactocentric coordinates in
> astropy.coordinates
> * A new astropy.visualization sub-package
> * A new astropy.analytic_functions sub-package
> * Compound models in astropy.modeling may now be created using
> arithmetic expressions, and the resulting models support fitting.
> * Significantly faster C-based readers/writers for astropy.io.ascii
> * Support for a new enhanced CSV ASCII table format
> * A refactored Table class with improved performance when
> adding/removing columns
> * Support for using Time, Quantity, or SkyCoord arrays as Table columns
> 
> In addition, hundreds of smaller improvements and fixes have been
> made. An overview of the changes is provided at:
> 
>     http://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/whatsnew/1.0.html
> 
> Astropy v1.0 is a special release that we are denoting a Long Term
> Support (LTS) release, which means that we will be supporting it with
> bug fixes for the next two years, rather than the usual six months.
> More information about this can be found at the link above.
> 
> Instructions for installing Astropy are provided on our website, and
> extensive documentation can be found at:
> 
>     http://docs.astropy.org
> 
> In particular, if you use the Anaconda Python Distribution, you can
> update to v1.0 with:
> 
>    conda update astropy
> 
> Whereas if you usually use pip, you can do:
> 
>    pip install astropy --upgrade
> 
> Please report any issues, or request new features via our GitHub repository:
> 
>     https://github.com/astropy/astropy/issues
> 
> Over 122 developers have contributed code to Astropy so far, and you
> can find out more about the team behind Astropy here:
> 
>     http://www.astropy.org/team.html
> 
> If you use Astropy directly for your work, or as a dependency to
> another package, please remember to include the following
> acknowledgment at the end of papers:
> 
> """
> This research made use of Astropy, a community-developed core Python
> package for Astronomy (Astropy Collaboration, 2013).
> """
> 
> where (Astropy Collaboration, 2013) is a reference to the Astropy paper:
> 
>     http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322068
> 
> Please feel free to forward this announcement to anyone you think
> might be interested in this release.
> 
> We hope that you enjoy using Astropy as much as we enjoyed developing it!
> 
> Thomas Robitaille, Erik Tollerud, and Perry Greenfield
> on behalf of The Astropy Collaboration
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