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Learning Astropy and Open-source Software Development

ASTR 597A - 2021 Winter

The course focuses on tools in the Astropy ecosystem, including the core library and its affiliated packages. It provides an introduction to the variety of functionality which is available inside Astropy with hands-on Jupyter notebooks.

Topics include core functionality of units, quantities & constants; coordinates; FITS, ASCII, and Astropy tables; modeling; WCS and images; timeseries. From the wider ecosystem, we will also cover topics to access data with astroquery and to perform point-source photometry with photutils.

We also cover topics related to open source contribution workflows, setting up repositories with testing and documentation, including hands-on exercises of opening pull requests and performing peer code review.

Location

  • When: Fridays 12:00 -- 14:40 Winter quarter 2021
  • Where: Zoom