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Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems

R. W. Argyle, +2 more
- Vol. 394
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The article was published on 2008-08-01 and is currently open access. It has received 5584 citations till now.

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Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy

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, +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 Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy, +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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