The SunPy Project: Open Source Development and Status of the Version 1.0 Core Package

@article{Barnes2020TheSP,
  title={The SunPy Project: Open Source Development and Status of the Version 1.0 Core Package},
  author={Will T. Barnes and Monica G. Bobra and Steven Christe and Nabil Freij and Laura A. Hayes and Jack Ireland and Stuart Mumford and David P{\'e}rez-Su{\'a}rez and Daniel F. Ryan and Albert Shih and Prateek Chanda and Kolja Glogowski and Russell J. Hewett and V. Keith Hughitt and Andrew Hill and Kaustubh Hiware and Andrew R. Inglis and Michael S. F. Kirk and Sudarshan Konge and James Mason and Shane A. Maloney and Sophie A. Murray and Asish Panda and Jongyeob Park and Tiago M. D. Pereira and Kevin P. Reardon and Sabrina L. Savage and Brigitta M. Sipocz and David Stansby and Yash Raj Jain and Garrison Taylor and Tannmay Yadav and Rajul and Trung Kien Dang and Primary Paper Contributors and Sunpy Contributors},
  journal={The Astrophysical Journal},
  year={2020},
  volume={890},
  pages={68}
}
The goal of the SunPy project is to facilitate and promote the use and development of community-led, free, and open source data analysis software for solar physics based on the scientific Python environment. The project achieves this goal by developing and maintaining the sunpy core package and supporting an ecosystem of affiliated packages. This paper describes the first official stable release (version 1.0) of the core package, as well as the project organization and infrastructure. This… 
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