Version control

We published an SPIE paper about optimized programs to teach version control to astronomers. For more details, please reach out to Iva Laginja.

Link to SPIE paper

Useful python packages

Poppy - optical propagation framework

• Documentation: https://poppy-optics.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

HCIPy - high contrast image propagation: coronagraphs, deformable mirrors, wavefront sensors, AO and more

• Documentation: https://hcipy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

pyZELDA - analysis for Zernike wavefront sensors

• Code: https://github.com/avigan/pyZELDA

VIP - Vortex Image Processing package for high-contrast direct imaging

• Code: https://github.com/vortex-exoplanet/VIP
• Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.06184
• Documentation: https://vip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

pyKLIP - library for direct imaging of exoplanets and disks

• Code: https://bitbucket.org/pyKLIP/pyklip/src/master/
• Documentation: https://pyklip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

PynPoint - package for processing and analysis of high-contrast imaging data of faint companions and circumstellar disks

• Code: https://github.com/PynPoint/PynPoint
• Documentation: https://pynpoint.readthedocs.io/en/latest/