SkyMaker is a program that simulates astronomical images. It accepts object lists in ASCII generated by the Stuff program to produce realistic astronomical fields. SkyMaker is part of the EFIGI development project.

Glue is a python project to link visualizations of scientific datasets across many files.

Radio Beam is a simple toolkit for reading beam information from FITS headers and manipulating beams. Some example applications include:

• Convolution and deconvolution

• Unit conversion (Jy to/from K)

• Handle sets of beams for spectral cubes with varying resolution between channels

• Find the smallest common beam from a set of beams

• Add the beam shape to a matplotlib plot

POPPY is a Python package that simulates physical optical propagation including diffraction. It implements a flexible framework for modeling Fraunhofer and Fresnel diffraction and point spread function formation, particularly in the context of astronomical telescopes.

POPPY was developed as part of a simulation package for the James Webb Space Telescope, but is more broadly applicable to many kinds of imaging simulations. It is not, however, a substitute for high fidelity optical design software such as Zemax or Code V, but rather is intended as a lightweight alternative for cases for which diffractive rather than geometric optics is the topic of interest, and which require portability between platforms or ease of scripting.

Cobaya, and Spanish for Guinea Pig) is a framework for sampling and statistical modelling: it allows you to explore an arbitrary prior or posterior using a range of Monte Carlo samplers (including the advanced MCMC sampler from CosmoMC, and the advanced nested sampler PolyChord). The results of the sampling can be analysed with GetDist. It supports MPI parallelization (and very soon HPC containerization with Docker/Shifter and Singularity).

This package provides a cython-optimized implementations of empirical dust exitinction laws found in the literature.

In EyE an artificial neural network connected to pixels of a moving window (retina) is trained to associate these input stimuli to the corresponding response in one or several output image(s). The resulting filter can be loaded in SExtractor to operate complex, wildly non-linear filters on astronomical images. Typical applications of EyE include adaptive filtering, feature detection and cosmetic corrections.

This package provides a comprehensive framework for Massive Black Hole binary population synthesis. The framework includes modules to perform population synthesis using a variety of methodologies from semi-analytic models, to cosmological hydrodynamic simulations, and even observationally-derived galaxy merger catalogs.

This package provides a functionality to reproject astronomical images using various techniques via a uniform interface, where reprojection is the re-gridding of images from one world coordinate system to another e.g. changing the pixel resolution, orientation, coordinate system.

CAMB is a cosmology code for calculating cosmological observables, including CMB, lensing, source count and 21cm angular power spectra, matter power spectra, transfer functions and background evolution. The code is in Python, with numerical code implemented in fast modern Fortran.

SunPy is package for solar physics and is meant to be a free alternative to the SolarSoft data analysis environment.

It includes an interface for searching and downloading data from multiple data providers, data containers for image and time series data, commonly used solar coordinate frames and associated transformations, as well as other functionality needed for solar data analysis.

This package implements a functionality of AI-powered automated pipeline for lens modeling, with lenstronomy as the modeling engine.

Features:

• AI-automated forward modeling for large samples of galaxy-scale lenses

• flexible: supports both fully automated and semi-automated (with user tweaks) modes

• multi-band lens modeling made simple

• supports both galaxy–galaxy and galaxy–quasar systems

• effortless syncing between local machines and High-Performance Computing Cluster

This package provides a flexible toolbox for observation planning and scheduling. When complete, the goal is to be easy for Python beginners and new observers to to pick up, but powerful enough for observatories preparing nightly and long-term schedules.

Features:

• calculate rise/set/meridian transit times, alt/az positions for targets at observatories anywhere on Earth

• built-in plotting convenience functions for standard observation planning plots (airmass, parallactic angle, sky maps)

• determining observability of sets of targets given an arbitrary set of constraints (i.e., altitude, airmass, moon separation/illumination, etc.)

HEALPix of a sphere produces a subdivision of a spherical surface in which each pixel covers the same surface area as every other pixel. This package provides the dynamic library for the C language implementation of HEALPix.

This package provides tools for COS.

PypeIt is a Python package for semi-automated reduction of astronomical spectroscopic data. Its algorithms build on decades-long development of previous data reduction pipelines by the developers.

It is designed to be used by both advanced spectroscopists with prior data reduction expertise and astronomers with no prior experience of data reduction. It is highly configurable and designed to be applied to any standard slit-imaging spectrograph, including long-slit, multi-slit, as well as cross-dispersed echelle spectra.

This package provides N(ell) noise curve projection code for the Simons Observatory. The intention is that the full history of noise models will be provided to supplement published projections and simulations.

The casa-formats-io package is a small package which implements functionality to read data stored in CASA formats (such as .image datasets). This implementation is independent of and does not use casacore.

Skyfield computes positions for the stars, planets, and satellites in orbit around the Earth.

specutils is a Python package for representing, loading, manipulating,and analyzing astronomical spectroscopic data. The generic data containers and accompanying modules provide a toolbox that the astronomical community can use to build more domain-specific packages. For more details about the underlying principles, see APE13.

This package contains a helper functionality to test ROMAN and JWST.

This package implements a functionality for analysing absorption and emission lines in 1-D spectra, especially galaxy and quasar spectra.

ndcube is a package for manipulating, inspecting and visualizing multi-dimensional contiguous and non-contiguous coordinate-aware data arrays.

It combines data, uncertainties, units, metadata, masking, and coordinate transformations into classes with unified slicing and generic coordinate transformations and plotting/animation capabilities. It is designed to handle data of any number of dimensions and axis types (e.g. spatial, temporal, spectral, etc.) whose relationship between the array elements and the real world can be described by WCS translations.

SOXS is a software suite which can create simulated X-ray observations of astrophysical sources with almost any existing or planned X-ray observatory. The goal of SOXS is to provide a comprehensive set of tools to design source models and convolve them with simulated models of X-ray instruments. This package was originally developed to support the Lynx X-ray Observatory mission concept, but has evolved to support other missions as well.