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 Installation page.
- To learn more about Gammapy, have a look at the About Gammapy page.
- The Getting Started Sphinx page.
General documentation¶
The Gammapy toolbox¶
- Command line tools (
gammapy.scripts) - Astrophysical source and population models (
gammapy.astro) - Background estimation and modeling (
gammapy.background) - Source catalogs and objects (
gammapy.catalog) - Cube Style Analysis (
gammapy.cube) - Data and observation handling (
gammapy.data) - Access datasets (
gammapy.datasets) - Source detection tools (
gammapy.detect) - Image processing and analysis tools (
gammapy.image) - Instrument response function (IRF) functionality (
gammapy.irf) - Spectrum estimation and modeling (
gammapy.spectrum) - Statistics tools (
gammapy.stats) - Time handling and analysis (
gammapy.time) - Utility functions and classes (
gammapy.utils)
News¶
To get notifications for Gammapy releases, join the Gammapy mailing list.
- April 28, 2017 — Gammapy 0.6 release. See changelog: 0.6 (April 28, 2017)
- February 2017 — Gammapy workshop in Paris
- November 22, 2016 — Gammapy 0.5 release. See changelog: 0.5 (November 22, 2016)
- 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: 0.4 (April 20, 2016)
- 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: 0.3 (August 13, 2015)
- 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: 0.2 (April 13, 2015)
- August 25, 2014 — Gammapy 0.1 release. See changelog: 0.1 (August 25, 2014)