An awesome list of resources for professional astronomers. Everyone is invited to contribute by pull request.
- AAS Policy Blog Josh Shiode
- AstroBetter Kelle Cruz and many other contributors
- Astrobiased Eli Bressert
- astrobites The astro-ph reader's digest
- AstroWright Jason Wright
- dan foreman-mackey Daniel Foreman-Mackey
- Hogg Blog David W. Hogg
- gully Michael Gully-Santiago
- Pythonic Perambulations Jacob T. VanderPlas
- SarahAskew Sarah Kendrew
- Sky and Telescope Sky and Telescope
All codes are in Python unless otherwise noted
- Andy Casey's ads - Python tool for ADS
- Astronomy Source Code Library - A free online registry for source codes of interest to astronomers and astrophysicists.
- Continuum Anaconda - Install, update, manage Python environments.
- AplPy - a Python module for astronomical imaging data.
- Astropy - Core package for Astronomy in Python.
- Astropy tutorials - Tutorials for the Astropy Project
- AstroML - Companion textbook Statistics, Data Mining, and Machine Learning in Astronomy.
- celerite - Scalable 1D Gaussian Processes in C++, Python, and Julia
- Emcee - Seriously kick-ass MCMC.
- ExoData - Open Exoplanet Catalogue interface and exploratory analysis tool.
- fast-histogram - Fast 1D and 2D histogram functions in Python
IDLNASA'S IDL Astronomy User's Library - large libary with plenty of very useful code for astronomers- The LSST Stack Conda-installable codes for working with LSST simulation data and some existing data. Detrending & Analysis
- sncosmo - Python library for supernova cosmology
- Pandas Profiling - Create HTML profiling reports from pandas DataFrame objects.
- Python Data Science Handbook - Python Data Science Handbook: full text in Jupyter Notebooks
- PyCBC - For GW Astronomy
- Banyan Sigma - A Bayesian classifier to identify members of the 27 nearest young associations within 150 pc of the Sun
- Barycorrpy - Calculate the barycentric velocity correction for a star with an accuracy well below 1 cm/s.
- gaia on tap - Python utilities and examples for accessing Gaia data using the Table Access Protocol (TAP)
- gaia tools - Tools for working with the ESAGaia data and related data sets
- gala - Galactic and gravitational dynamics in Python
- GalPy - Galactic Dynamics in python.
- Luminosity Calibration Tutorial - Tutorial on use of parallaxes in luminosity calibration; accompanies a Gaia DR2 paper on the proper use of parallaxes (Luri et al. in prep)
- vaex - Lazy Out-of-Core DataFrames for Python, visualize and explore big tabular data at a billion rows per second.
- ExoSOFT - Solves for the orbital elements of any single companion, provided observed radial velocity and/or astrometry.
- pyaneti - A multi-planet Radial Velocity and Transit fit software
- PyGaia - Python toolkit for basic Gaia data simulation, manipulation, and analysis
- radvel - General Toolkit for Modeling Radial Velocity Data
- Apogee - Tools for dealing with APOGEE data
- Chimera - Atmospheric retrieval code from Mike Line
- The Cannon - a data-driven method for determining stellar parameters and abundances from stellar spectra.
- The Payne - Artificial Neural-Net compression and fitting of synthetic spectral grids.
- PSOAP - Tools for data-driven spectra models with Gaussian processes. Pronounced "soap."
- pydis - A simple longslit spectroscopy pipeline in Python
- pyspeckit - Python Spectroscopic Toolkit
- sick - the spectroscopic inference crank
- Specmatch Empirical - tool to extract the fundamental properties (effective temperature, radius, and metallicity) by comparing a target star's spectrum to a library of spectra from stars with known properties.
- Specmatch Synthetic - tool to extract the fundamental properties (effective temperature, radius, and metallicity) by comparing a target star's spectrum to synthetic spectra.
- SpectResC - A simple spectral resampling Python tool written in C (based on SpectRes)
- specviz - An interactive astronomical 1D spectra analysis tool.
- specutils - Astropy affiliated package for 1D spectral operations.
- splat - SpeX Prism Spectral Analysis Toolkit
- Starfish - Tools for Flexible Spectroscopic Inference
- TelFit - Telluric fitting made easy
- wobble - Precise data-driven RV fitting, now with tellurics!
- image registration - Image Registration for Astronomy.
juliaCeleste.jl - Scalable inference for a generative model of astronomical images.- Dust Maps - A uniform interface for a number of 2D and 3D maps of interstellar dust reddening/extinction.
- fsps - Flexible Stellar Population Synthesis
- LA Cosmicx - A fast implementation of the LA Cosmic algorithm
RProFound - Source finding and extraction- PSFutils - Open-source Python package to provide convenience tools for working with point-spread functions.
- Synphot - Synthetic photometry using Astropy
- NOAO Source Catalog - Source catalog of all NOAO imaging data
- sep - Python and C library for source extraction and photometry
- sewpy - Source Extractor Wrapper for Python
- astro_animations - Various animations used for teaching introductory astronomy concepts
- gifsicle - Create, manipulate, and optimize GIF images and animations
- holoviews - Stop plotting your data - annotate your data and let it visualize itself.
- aplpy - Astronomical Plotting Library in Python
- spectrify - Reverse engineer astronomical spectra into pretty rainbow pictures with Python
- ztv - An astronomical image viewer written in Python.
Detrending
- PyKE - Kepler, K2 & TESS Data Analysis Tools
- everest - De-trending of K2 Light curves
- k2sc - K2 systematics correction using Gaussian processes
- nutella - Great (point) spreads for beautiful Kepler/K2 inference
- skope - Synthetic K2 Objects for PLD Experimentation
- k2phot - public k2phot code from Erik Petigura
- K2-CPM - K2 Causal Pixel Model
- halophot - K2 Halo Photometry for very bright stars
- cave - Crowded Aperture Variability Extraction
- celerite-asteroseis - Transit fitting and basic time-domain asteroseismology using celerite and ktransit
- k2photometry - Read, reduce and detrend K2 photometry and search for transiting planets
- keplersmear - Make light curves from Kepler and K2 collateral data
- OxKeplerSC - Kepler jump and systematics correction using Variational Bayes and shrinkage priors.
- K2Pipeline - Data reduction and detrending pipeline for K2 data in Matlab
- PySysRem - A Python implementation of the SysRem algorithm from Tamuz, Mazeh, and Zucker (2004)
- kali - A library to model a time series as a Continuous-time ARMA process
Full Frame Images
- f3 - Full Frame Fotometry from the Kepler Full Frame Images
- FFIorBUST - Make really bad light curves from the Kepler Full Frame Images
- kepcal - Self calibration using the Kepler FFIs
Data Access
- kplr - Tools for working with Kepler data using Python
- kepFGS - Tools to use the Kepler and K2 Fine Guidance Sensor data.
- k2plr - Fork of dfm/kplr with added k2 functionality
Metadata
- kadenza - Converts raw cadence target data from the Kepler space telescope into FITS files.
- k2-quality-control - Automated quality control of Kepler/K2 data products.
- SuperstampFITS - Create individual FITS files of K2 superstamp regions.
- keputils - Basic module for interaction with KOI and Kepler-stellar tables.
Planet Search / Characterization
- PyTransit - Fast and easy transit light curve modeling using Python and Fortran.
- batman - Fast transit light curves models in Python.
- ktransit - A simple exoplanet transit modeling tool in python
- planetplanet - A general photodynamical code for exoplanet light curves
- ketu - I can haz planetz?
- ttvfast-python - Python interface to the TTVFast library
fortranTTVFast - TTVFast efficiently calculates transit times for n-planet systems and the corresponding radial velocities.- terra - Transit Detection Code
- pysyzygy - A fast and general planet transit (syzygy) code written in C and in Python
- k2ps - K2 Planet Search
- lcps - A tool for pre-selecting light curves with possible transit signatures
- PyOrbit - PyORBIT: a code for exoplanet orbital parameters and stellar activity.
- exocartographer - A forward-modeling tool for constraining surface maps orbital parameters of exoplanets from time-resolved photometry
- Spiderman - A fast code to simulate secondary transits and phase curves
- ExoCTK - The Exoplanet Characterization Tool Kit, an open-source, modular data analysis package focused primarily on atmospheric characterization of exoplanets
Population Statistics
- VESPA - Calculating false positive probabilities for transit signals
- kepler-robovetter - The Kepler Prime Robovetter
- koi-fpp - False positive probabilities for all KOIs
- KeplerPORTS - The Kepler Pipeline
- Kepler-FLTI - Kepler Prime Flux-Level Transit Injection
Positional
- K2fov - Check whether targets are in the field of view of NASA's K2 space telescope
- K2ephem - Check whether a Solar System body is (or was) observable by NASA's K2 mission.
- k2-pix - Overlay a sky survey image on a K2 target pixel stamp
- k2flix - Create quicklook movies from the pixel data observed by Kepler/K2/TESS
- k2mosaic - Mosaic Target Pixel Files (TPFs) obtained by NASA's Kepler/K2 missions into images and movies.
- tvguide - A tool for determining whether stars and galaxies are observable by TESS.
Science / Astrophysics
- isochrones - Pythonic stellar model grid access; easy MCMC fitting of stellar properties
- ldtk - Python toolkit for calculating stellar limb darkening profiles
- isoclassify - Perform stellar classifications using isochrone grids
- appaloosa - Python-based flare finding code for Kepler light curves.
- pymacula - Python wrapper for Macula analytic starspot code
- MulensModel - Microlensing Modelling package
- animate_spots - Make frames for animated gifs/movies showing a rotating spotted star
- spotrod - A semi-analytic model for transits of spotted stars -- C implementation and Python API
- decatur - Tidal Synchronization of Kepler Eclipsing Binaries
Other
- PandExo - A Community Tool for Transiting Exoplanet Science with the JWST & HST
- kepler_orrery - Make a Kepler orrery gif or movie of all the Kepler multi-planet systems
- koi3278 - Analysis files for the KOI-3278 system
- trappist1 - TRAPPIST-1 photometry with K2
- binaryoffset - Detecting and Correcting the Binary Offset Effect in CCDs
- INDI - INDI is a standard for astronomical instrumentation control
- astroberry-server - astronomy desktop system for Raspberry Pi 3 based on INDI
- International Astronomy Meetings - List of all planned Astronomy Conferences
- Python in Astronomy - A conference series focusing on the use, development, and community surrounding Python packages for all types of Astronomy.
- AAVSO APASS Optical all sky data.
- AAVSO Data - Long time baseline data for variable stars.
- AllWISE - Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer.
- AstroML - Tools and data sets, including SDSS, LINEAR light curves, LIGO data.
- Gaia Archive - Gaia data for one billion stars.
- GALEX SQL query - Galex data.
- Hipparcos - Subset of HYG.
- HYG- Database containing all stars in Hipparcos, Yale Bright Star, and Gliese catalogs (almost 120,000 stars, 14 MB).
- LINEAR - 7194 LINEAR variables with light curve classification.
- LOFAR - Low-Frequency Array radio data from surveys and key science projects, available through VO-compliant interfaces.
- MAST - The Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes houses astronomical data sets in the optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared parts of the spectrum
- NOAO Data Lab - Offers large datasets now being generated by instruments on NOAO and other wide-field telescopes.
- OGLE - Variable stars towards OGLE-III fields in the Magellanic Clouds and Galactic bulge
- Open Astronomy Catalogs - Databases of supernovae, tidal disruptions, kilonovae, and high-velocity stars.
- Open Exoplanet Catalogue - An open source database of all discovered extrasolar planets.
- Research-based Science Education for Undergraduates - Curated datasets on 7 projects designed for undergraduates.
- SDSS SQL query - Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
- SDSS for Teachers - Includes basic projects and advanced projects
- Supernova Cosmology Project The Union2.1 SN Ia compilation of 883 SNe from 19 datasets.
- ARCHES - XMM-Newton cross match database
- Pan-Starrs - Public data release coming soon.
- Astronomer's Facebook Group - Closed group for professional astromers, with over 8000 members.
- Astronomers on Twitter - List of Astronomers on Twitter with over 1000 followers.
- Astromers.io - "A nice place for astronomers, and those working in the sphere of professional astronomy"
- Community.lsst.org - A community forum for using/developing LSST software and doing science with LSST.
- Python Users in Astronomy - A closed group for python users in astronomy.
- Project Panoptes - A citizen science project that aims to make it easy for anyone to build a low cost, robotic telescope that can be used to detect transiting exoplanets.
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