[NEW SUBMISSION] galpy

[jobovy]

Citation information

"galpy": {
    "tags": [
        "2015ApJS..216...29B"
    ],
    "logo": "img/galpy.png",
    "language": "Python",
    "category": "Galactic Dynamics",
    "keywords": [
        "galaxies",
        "galactic dynamics",
        "dynamics",
        "orbits",
        "actions",
        "distribution functions"
    ],
    "description": "galpy is a Python package for galactic dynamics. It supports orbit integration in a variety of potentials, various distribution functions, and the calculation of action-angle coordinates.",
    "link": "https://docs.galpy.org/",
    "attribution_link": "https://docs.galpy.org/en/latest/#acknowledging-galpy",
    "zenodo_doi": "",
    "custom_citation": "This work made use of \\texttt{galpy}\\footnote{Available at \\url{http://github.com/jobovy/galpy}~.} \\citep{2015ApJS..216...29B}.",
    "dependencies": [
        "matplotlib",
        "numpy",
        "scipy"
    ]
}

BibTeX

@ARTICLE{2015ApJS..216...29B,
       author = {{Bovy}, Jo},
        title = "{galpy: A python Library for Galactic Dynamics}",
      journal = {\apjs},
     keywords = {galaxies: general, galaxies: kinematics and dynamics, Galaxy: fundamental parameters, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics},
         year = 2015,
        month = feb,
       volume = {216},
       number = {2},
          eid = {29},
        pages = {29},
          doi = {10.1088/0067-0049/216/2/29},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
       eprint = {1412.3451},
 primaryClass = {astro-ph.GA},
       adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015ApJS..216...29B},
      adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System}
}

Logo

[FloorBroekgaarden]

Thanks so much @jobovy for the suggestion and submission. This looks great! I have added galpy with commit 52c288c It should appear on the website within ~5 min :)

Floor

[FloorBroekgaarden]

minor updates:

• I added a footnote to point users to the potential additional acknowledgements they need to ask by adding \\footnote{{TO DO:} add additional references for packages from \\url{https://docs.galpy.org/en/latest/#acknowledging-galpy}}

[FloorBroekgaarden]

• i found a zenodo that seems to come from the same code; https://zenodo.org/records/19168, but it doesnt have the latest version 1.9.2. @jobovy I can see that this was released on your GitHub at https://github.com/jobovy/galpy/releases/tag/v1.9.2, is this by any chance linked to a Zenodo release? That could be useful for people to cite a specific version. (but no worries if not)

  Feel free to let us know if you have any preferences (or want me to undo the footnote pointing to additional citations) - happy to help!

[jobovy]

Thanks for adding!

• i found a zenodo that seems to come from the same code; https://zenodo.org/records/19168, but it doesnt have the latest version 1.9.2. @jobovy I can see that this was released on your GitHub at https://github.com/jobovy/galpy/releases/tag/v1.9.2, is this by any chance linked to a Zenodo release? That could be useful for people to cite a specific version. (but no worries if not)

I don't release to zenodo, just to GitHub and PyPI. I don't actually know who added that galpy version to zenodo, but it wasn't me and is many years out of date.

Feel free to let us know if you have any preferences (or want me to undo the footnote pointing to additional citations) - happy to help!

I think it looks good as is. I'm not sure the footnote is necessary though as it's not that common that people need to cite additional packages from that page and people then generally just cite this within the text. So I think it could be removed.

[FloorBroekgaarden]

OK, thanks! I removed the extra footnote! Thanks for the info!