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  "venue": {
    "journal": "The Astrophysical Journal",
    "volume": "935",
    "number": "2",
    "pages": "167"
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  "arxiv": "2206.14220",
  "primaryClass": "astro-ph.IM",
  "bibcode": "2022ApJ...935..167A",
  "doi": "10.3847/1538-4357/ac7c74",
  "citations": 2200,
  "links": [
    {
      "rel": "repo",
      "url": "https://github.com/astropy/astropy-v5.0-paper"
    },
    {
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      "url": "https://github.com/astropy/astropy"
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      "url": "https://www.astropy.org"
    },
    {
      "rel": "data",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8325470"
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  "refs": [
    "astropy"
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  "tags": [
    "software"
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  "internal": "Author list is complete: all 135 named authors, in the order Crossref gives for the DOI, with its 'Paper Authors' and 'Astropy Project Contributors' group headings dropped. The collaborator map is deliberately narrower: only the first ten plus every Astropy Active Voting Member on the paper (26 more, from config/astropy-voting-members.json, read 2026-08-25) may carry an ORCID - the people who run the project rather than the wider list who signed it. Of those 36, ORCIDs are recorded only where that ORCID record itself claims this DOI, which is 19. Everyone else is named without one, so does not reach the map; do not add ORCIDs to them. Two surname collisions were rejected on first initial: Daria Cara is not Mihai Cara, and Rohit R. Patil is not Aarya Patil.",
  "details": "Co-wrote the Highlighted Feature Development, New and Planned Features, Precision, Accuracy & Reproducibility, and Performance sections.",
  "citekey": "Astropy+Price-Whelan+:2022:astropy-v5",
  "abstract": "The Astropy Project supports and fosters the development of open-source and openly-developed Python packages that provide commonly needed functionality to the astronomical community. A key element of the Astropy Project is the core package astropy, which serves as the foundation for more specialized projects and packages. In this article, we summarize key features in the core package as of the recent major release, version 5.0, and provide major updates for the Project. We then discuss supporting a broader ecosystem of interoperable packages, including connections with several astronomical observatories and missions. We also revisit the future outlook of the Astropy Project and the current status of Learn Astropy. We conclude by raising and discussing the current and future challenges facing the Project.",
  "highlight": {
    "topic": "software",
    "image": "highlights/astropy-v5-paper.webp",
    "alt": "The Astropy logo: a white spiral on an orange-to-red oval.",
    "description": "Astropy is the shared foundation of Python astronomy: a core package for units, coordinates, tables, file I/O and more, and an ecosystem of interoperable packages built on it. This paper describes the v5.0 release and the state of the Project, including its ties to observatories and missions and Learn Astropy, and confronts the challenge of sustaining a community-run codebase that much of astronomy now depends on."
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}