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Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems
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Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy
Thomas P. Robitaille,Erik Tollerud,Perry Greenfield,Michael Droettboom,Erik Bray,Tom Aldcroft,Matt Davis,Adam Ginsburg,Adrian M. Price-Whelan,Wolfgang Kerzendorf,A. Conley,Neil H. M. Crighton,Kyle Barbary,Demitri Muna,Henry C. Ferguson,Frédéric Grollier,Madhura Parikh,Prasanth H. Nair,Hans Moritz Günther,Christoph Deil,Julien Woillez,Simon Conseil,Roban Kramer,J. Turner,Leo Singer,R. T. Fox,Benjamin A. Weaver,Victor Zabalza,Zachary I. Edwards,K. Azalee Bostroem,Douglas Burke,Andrew R. Casey,Steven M. Crawford,Nadia Dencheva,Justin Ely,Tim Jenness,Kathleen Labrie,Pey Lian Lim,Francesco Pierfederici,Andrew Pontzen,Andy Ptak,Brian L. Refsdal,Mathieu Servillat,Ole Streicher +43 more
TL;DR: Astropy as discussed by the authors is a Python package for astronomy-related functionality, including support for domain-specific file formats such as flexible image transport system (FITS) files, Virtual Observatory (VO) tables, common ASCII table formats, unit and physical quantity conversions, physical constants specific to astronomy, celestial coordinate and time transformations, world coordinate system (WCS) support, generalized containers for representing gridded as well as tabular data, and a framework for cosmological transformations and conversions.
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The Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
TL;DR: SDSS-II as mentioned in this paper is the last data set of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and contains 357 million distinct objects, including 930,000 galaxies, 120,000 quasars, and 460,000 stars.
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The Astropy Project: Building an Open-science Project and Status of the v2.0 Core Package
Adrian M. Price-Whelan,B. M. Sipőcz,Hans Moritz Günther,P. L. Lim,Steven M. Crawford,S. Conseil,D. L. Shupe,M. W. Craig,N. Dencheva,Adam Ginsburg,Jacob T VanderPlas,Larry Bradley,David Pérez-Suárez,M. de Val-Borro,T. L. Aldcroft,Kelle L. Cruz,Thomas P. Robitaille,E. J. Tollerud,C. Ardelean,Tomáš Babej,Y. P. Bach,Matteo Bachetti,A. V. Bakanov,Steven P. Bamford,Geert Barentsen,Pauline Barmby,Andreas Baumbach,Katherine Berry,F. Biscani,Médéric Boquien,K. A. Bostroem,L. G. Bouma,G. B. Brammer,E. M. Bray,H. Breytenbach,H. Buddelmeijer,D. J. Burke,G. Calderone,J. L. Cano Rodríguez,Mihai Cara,José Vinícius de Miranda Cardoso,S. Cheedella,Y. Copin,Lia Corrales,Devin Crichton,D. DÁvella,Christoph Deil,É. Depagne,J. P. Dietrich,Axel Donath,M. Droettboom,Nicholas Earl,T. Erben,Sebastien Fabbro,Leonardo Ferreira,T. Finethy,R. T. Fox,Lehman H. Garrison,S. L. J. Gibbons,Daniel A. Goldstein,Ralf Gommers,Johnny P. Greco,P. Greenfield,A. M. Groener,Frédéric Grollier,A. Hagen,P. Hirst,Derek Homeier,Anthony Horton,Griffin Hosseinzadeh,L. Hu,J. S. Hunkeler,Ž. Ivezić,A. Jain,T. Jenness,G. Kanarek,Sarah Kendrew,Nicholas S. Kern,Wolfgang Kerzendorf,A. Khvalko,J. King,D. Kirkby,A. M. Kulkarni,Ashok Kumar,Antony Lee,D. Lenz,S. P. Littlefair,Zhiyuan Ma,D. M. Macleod,M. Mastropietro,C. McCully,S. Montagnac,Brett M. Morris,M. Mueller,Stuart Mumford,D. Muna,Nicholas A. Murphy,Stefan Nelson,G. H. Nguyen,Joe Philip Ninan,M. Nöthe,S. Ogaz,Seog Oh,J. K. Parejko,N. R. Parley,Sergio Pascual,R. Patil,A. A. Patil,A. L. Plunkett,Jason X. Prochaska,T. Rastogi,V. Reddy Janga,J. Sabater,Parikshit Sakurikar,Michael Seifert,L. E. Sherbert,H. Sherwood-Taylor,A. Y. Shih,J. Sick,M. T. Silbiger,Sudheesh Singanamalla,Leo Singer,P. H. Sladen,K. A. Sooley,S. Sornarajah,Ole Streicher,P. Teuben,Scott Thomas,Grant R. Tremblay,J. Turner,V. Terrón,M. H. van Kerkwijk,A. de la Vega,Laura L. Watkins,B. A. Weaver,J. Whitmore,Julien Woillez,Victor Zabalza,Astropy Contributors +138 more
TL;DR: The Astropy project as discussed by the authors is a Python project supporting the development of open-source and openly developed Python packages that provide commonly needed functionality to the astronomical community, including the core package astropy.
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The UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS)
Andy Lawrence,Stephen J. Warren,Omar Almaini,Alastair C. Edge,Nigel Hambly,Richard F. Jameson,Philip W. Lucas,M. Casali,Andrew J. Adamson,Simon Dye,J. P. Emerson,S. Foucaud,P. C. Hewett,Paul Hirst,Simon Hodgkin,Mike Irwin,N. Lodieu,Richard G. McMahon,Chris Simpson,Chris Simpson,Ian Smail,Daniel J. Mortlock,M. Folger +22 more
TL;DR: The final version published in MNRAS August 2007 included significant revisions including significant revisions to the original version April 2006.
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The Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy,Marcel A. Agüeros,S. Allam,S. Allam,Carlos Allende Prieto,K. S. J. Anderson,Scott F. Anderson,James Annis,Neta A. Bahcall,Coryn A. L. Bailer-Jones,Ivan K. Baldry,Ivan K. Baldry,John C. Barentine,Bruce A. Bassett,Andrew C. Becker,Timothy C. Beers,Eric F. Bell,Andreas A. Berlind,Mariangela Bernardi,Michael R. Blanton,John J. Bochanski,William N. Boroski,Jarle Brinchmann,J. Brinkmann,Robert J. Brunner,Tamás Budavári,Samuel Carliles,Michael A. Carr,Francisco J. Castander,D. Cinabro,Richard J. Cool,Kevin R. Covey,István Csabai,István Csabai,Carlos E. Cunha,James R. A. Davenport,Ben Dilday,Mamoru Doi,Daniel J. Eisenstein,Michael L. Evans,Xiaohui Fan,Douglas P. Finkbeiner,Scott D. Friedman,Joshua A. Frieman,Joshua A. Frieman,Masataka Fukugita,Boris T. Gänsicke,Evalyn Gates,Bruce Gillespie,Karl Glazebrook,Jim Gray,Eva K. Grebel,Eva K. Grebel,James E. Gunn,Vijay K. Gurbani,Vijay K. Gurbani,Patrick B. Hall,Paul Harding,Michael Harvanek,Suzanne L. Hawley,Jeffrey J. E. Hayes,Timothy M. Heckman,John S. Hendry,Robert B. Hindsley,Christopher M. Hirata,Craig J. Hogan,David W. Hogg,J. B. Hyde,Shin-Ichi Ichikawa,Željko Ivezić,Sebastian Jester,Jennifer A. Johnson,Anders M. Jorgensen,Mario Juric,Stephen M. Kent,Richard Kessler,S. J. Kleinman,Gillian R. Knapp,Richard G. Kron,Richard G. Kron,Jurek Krzesinski,Jurek Krzesinski,Nikolay Kuropatkin,D. Q. Lamb,Hubert Lampeitl,Svetlana Lebedeva,Young Sun Lee,R. French Leger,Sébastien Lépine,Marcos Lima,Huan Lin,Dan Long,Craig P. Loomis,Jon Loveday,Robert H. Lupton,Olena Malanushenko,Viktor Malanushenko,Rachel Mandelbaum,Bruce Margon,John Marriner,David Martinez-Delgado,Takahiko Matsubara,P. M. McGehee,Timothy A. McKay,Avery Meiksin,Heather L. Morrison,Jeffrey A. Munn,Reiko Nakajima,Eric H. Neilsen,Heidi Jo Newberg,Robert C. Nichol,T. Nicinski,Maria Nieto-Santisteban,Atsuko Nitta,Sadanori Okamura,Russell Owen,Hiroaki Oyaizu,Nikhil Padmanabhan,Kaike Pan,Changbom Park,John Peoples,Jeffrey R. Pier,Adrian Pope,Norbert Purger,M. Jordan Raddick,Paola Re Fiorentin,Gordon T. Richards,Michael Richmond,Adam G. Riess,Hans-Walter Rix,Constance M. Rockosi,Masao Sako,Masao Sako,David J. Schlegel,Donald P. Schneider,Matthias R. Schreiber,Axel Schwope,Uroš Seljak,Uroš Seljak,Branimir Sesar,Erin Sheldon,K. Shimasaku,Thirupathi Sivarani,J. Allyn Smith,Stephanie A. Snedden,Matthias Steinmetz,Michael A. Strauss,Mark SubbaRao,Mark SubbaRao,Yasushi Suto,Alexander S. Szalay,István Szapudi,Paula Szkody,Max Tegmark,Aniruddha R. Thakar,Christy A. Tremonti,Douglas L. Tucker,A. Uomoto,Daniel E. Vanden Berk,Jan Vandenberg,S. Vidrih,Michael S. Vogeley,Wolfgang Voges,Nicole P. Vogt,Yogesh Wadadekar,David H. Weinberg,Andrew A. West,Simon D. M. White,Brian C. Wilhite,Brian Yanny,D. R. Yocum,Donald G. York,Idit Zehavi,Daniel B. Zucker +173 more
TL;DR: The Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDS) as discussed by the authors contains images and parameters of roughly 287 million objects over 9583 deg(2), including scans over a large range of Galactic latitudes and longitudes.
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