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.. _gammapy_welcome:

What is Gammapy?
----------------

Gammapy is a community-developed, open-source Python package for gamma-ray astronomy.

* Read the `Gammapy documentation`_.
* Ask questions on the `Gammapy mailing list`_.
* Request features, report bugs or contribute on the `Gammapy GitHub page`_.
* Gammapy works with Python 2 and 3, on Linux, Mac OS X and (partly) Windows.

Getting started
---------------

.. note::

    Start learning about Gammapy using the `Gammapy tutorial notebooks`_.

Other introductory pages:

* To install Gammapy, see the instructions on the :ref:`install` page.
* To learn more about Gammapy, have a look at the :ref:`about` page.
* The :ref:`getting-started` Sphinx page.

.. _gammapy_general_docs:

General documentation
---------------------

.. toctree::
  :maxdepth: 1

  about
  install/index
  getting-started
  tutorials/index
  dataformats/index
  references
  development/index
  changelog

.. _gammapy_toolbox:

The Gammapy toolbox
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.. toctree::
  :maxdepth: 1
 
  scripts/index
  astro/index
  background/index
  catalog/index
  cube/index
  data/index
  datasets/index
  detect/index
  image/index
  irf/index
  spectrum/index
  stats/index
  time/index
  utils/index

.. _gammapy_news:

News
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To get notifications for Gammapy releases, join the `Gammapy mailing list`_.

* April 28, 2017 --- Gammapy **0.6** release. See changelog: :ref:`gammapy_0p6_release`
* February 2017 --- `Gammapy workshop in Paris <https://github.com/gammapy/gammapy-meetings/blob/master/2017-02_Paris.md>`__
* November 22, 2016 --- Gammapy **0.5** release. See changelog: :ref:`gammapy_0p5_release`
* July 2016 --- `Gammapy poster at Gamma 2016`_
* June 2016 --- `First Gammapy coding sprint`_ at MPIK, Heidelberg
* June 2016 --- Gammapy is used to build `gamma-sky.net`_
* May - August 2016 --- `Olga Vorokh GSoC 2016 on image analysis and source detection`_
* May 2016 --- `First Gammapy presentation at a CTA meeting`_
* April 20, 2016 --- Gammapy **0.4** release. See changelog: :ref:`gammapy_0p4_release`
* April 7, 2016 --- Gammapy presentation at the `April 2016 IACT data meeting`_
* November 16 - 20, 2015 --- `Python for gamma-ray astronomy 2015`_ workshop at MPIK, Heidelberg
* August 13, 2015 --- Gammapy **0.3** release. See changelog: :ref:`gammapy_0p3_release`
* August 2015 --- `Gammapy poster and proceeding at ICRC 2015`_
* May - August 2015 --- `Manuel Paz Arribas GSoC 2015 on observation handling and cube background modeling`_
* April 13, 2015 --- Gammapy **0.2** release. See changelog: :ref:`gammapy_0p2_release`
* August 25, 2014 --- Gammapy **0.1** release. See changelog: :ref:`gammapy_0p1_release`