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Science Explorer (SciX) @scixcommunity.bsky.social · 9d

We have lift-off! Science Explorer, or #SciX to its friends, is excited to be your new home for open, connected, and trustworthy science. Explore. Share. Discover at scixplorer.org #OpenScience #ResearchInfrastructure #SpaceScience #EarthScience #PlanetaryScience

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ASCL (Astrophysics Source Code Library) @asclnet.bsky.social · 18d

SoFT: Solar Feature Tracking suite
tropygal: Entropy estimates for galactic dynamics
Twinkle: GPU-based high-efficiency binary-lens microlensing

See all of them here: ascl.net/wordpress/20...

Or use this to see their abstracts and other recent codes: ascl.net/code/all/ord...

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August 2025 additions to the ASCL – ASCL.net

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ASCL (Astrophysics Source Code Library) @asclnet.bsky.social · 18d

OFT: Open-source Flux Transport
pyPLUTO: Tool to analyze PLUTO code outputs
pySTARBURST99: Python port of STARBURST99
RheoVolution: Rheology evolution in the time domain
SIGWAY: Compute second-order, scalar induced gravitational wave signals
sMV: Serial MultiView phase plane estimation
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ASCL (Astrophysics Source Code Library) @asclnet.bsky.social · 18d

FRion: Time averaged correction of Faraday Rotation from the IONosphere
gwsnr: Gravitational Wave Signal-to-Noise Ratio computation
HipFT: High-performance Flux Transport
IAR_Model: Autoregressive model to irregularly spaced data
MPI-Rockstar: Hybrid MPI & OpenMP parallel implementation of Rockstar

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ASCL (Astrophysics Source Code Library) @asclnet.bsky.social · 18d

DeepSSM: Cosmological emulator for the GW spectrum from the modified sound-shell model
EllipSect: Analysis tool for GALFIT output
FiCUS: FItting the stellar Continuum of Uv Spectra
fm4ar: Inferring atmospheric properties of exoplanets using flow matching posterior estimation

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ASCL (Astrophysics Source Code Library) @asclnet.bsky.social · 18d

Twenty-two codes were added to the ASCL in August, 2025:

ABC-SN: Spectroscopic supernova classifier
AGNI: Model for extreme atmospheres on rocky exoplanets
AstroWISP: Astronomical Widefield Images Stellar Photometry
AutoWISP: High-precision photometry pipeline

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owlice @owlice.bsky.social · Aug 18

This Wed, Aug 20, 11:00 EDT/15:00 UTC
Virtual Astronomy Software Talks seminar: Teaching Computational Astrophysics in an AI World
Panelists are:
Dr. Stella Offner
Dr. John Wallin
Dr. Michael Zingale

Info: vast-seminars.github.io
Join mailing list: groups.google.com/g/virtual-as...

#astronomy

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Virtual Astronomy Software Talks

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ASCL (Astrophysics Source Code Library) @asclnet.bsky.social · Aug 13

And now a question:

Who was the first to use the ASCL to cite software? I will provide chocolate (when weather/circumstances allow [::shakes fist at high temps::]) to the first person who correctly identifies the first citation to an ASCL entry (using the ASCL ID).

Please post answers here.

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ASCL (Astrophysics Source Code Library) @asclnet.bsky.social · Aug 13

As of today, ADS shows that ASCL entries have over 20K citations. Citations are not a perfect metric, but they do show ASCL is being used & is useful for citing software, thereby allowing code authors to get credit for the computational methods they contribute to the field, w00t!
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ADS partial screenshot showing ASCL entries have been cited 20,025 times.

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · Aug 12

of the Astropy project’s community. These packages are expressing an interest in Astropy’s goals of improving reuse, interoperability, and interface standards for Python astronomy and astrophysics packages.

This metapackage installs all affiliated packages.
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python3-astropy-affiliated homepage

www.astropy.org

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Debian Astro Pure Blend @debianastro.bsky.social · Aug 12

Random Debian Astro package of the week is python3-astropy-affiliated. A major part of the Astropy project is the concept of “Affiliated Packages”. An affiliated package is an astronomy-related Python package that is not part of the astropy core package, but has requested to be included as part
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ASCL (Astrophysics Source Code Library) @asclnet.bsky.social · Aug 12

We’ve got the codes that ma-ake research sing
We’ve got her codes, his codes, and every-thing
We’ve got the codes whose deletion made them cry
We’ve got the codes, we’ve got the codes.

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ASCL (Astrophysics Source Code Library) @asclnet.bsky.social · Aug 10

ASCL has received funding through NASA's HPOSS call for a 1-year project to improve the visibility & citability of research software in Exoplanet Modeling & Analysis Center (EMAC). The project is directed by ASCL editor Alice Allen & Dr. Peter Teuben through Eureka Scientific.
emac.gsfc.nasa.gov

Exoplanet Modeling and Analysis Center

EMAC serves as a catalog, repository and integration platform for modeling and analysis resources focused on the study of exoplanet characteristics and environments.

emac.gsfc.nasa.gov

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ASCL (Astrophysics Source Code Library) @asclnet.bsky.social · Aug 10

tayph: Cross-correlation analysis of high resolution spectroscopy
torchmfbd: Multi-object multi-frame blind deconvolution of point-like or extended objects
ysoisochrone: Python package to estimate masses and ages for young stellar objects

#openscience
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July 2025 additions to the ASCL – ASCL.net

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ASCL (Astrophysics Source Code Library) @asclnet.bsky.social · Aug 10

SPIBACK: Backward-integration-based non-axisymmetric models of the Milky Way disk
spinifex: Ionospheric corrections
SysSimExClusters: Clustered planetary system model for SysSim
SysSimPyMMEN: Infer the minimum-mass extrasolar nebula
SysSimPyPlots: Functions for plotting galleries of systems

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ASCL (Astrophysics Source Code Library) @asclnet.bsky.social · Aug 10

SAUSERO: Software to AUomatize in a Simple Environment the Reduction of Osiris+
show_cube: Show reduced spectra for Gemini NIFS
spectool: Spectral data processing and analysis toolkit
spherimatch: Cross-matching and self-matching in spherical coordinates

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ASCL (Astrophysics Source Code Library) @asclnet.bsky.social · Aug 10

P-CORONA: Coronal atomic lines intensity and polarizational modeler
PCM-HiPT: Planetary Climate Model for High Pressures and Temperatures
PIRATES: Polarimetric Image Reconstruction AI for Tracing Evolved Structures
Sapphire++: Interaction of charged particles with a background plasma simulator

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ASCL (Astrophysics Source Code Library) @asclnet.bsky.social · Aug 10

LSCS: High-contrast space telescopes simulator
MathWAP: Compute power spectra bispectra contributions from peturbation theory
nGIST: The new galaxy integral field spectroscopy tool
Nii-C: Automatic parallel tempering Markov Chain Monte Carlo framework
OW: Opacity Wizard

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ASCL (Astrophysics Source Code Library) @asclnet.bsky.social · Aug 10

Coniferest: Python package for active anomaly detection
CosmoWAP: Power spectra and bispectra analyzer
DPMhalo: Descriptive Parametric Model for gaseous halos
ExoplanetsSysSim: Exoplanet System Simulation
EXP: nbody EXPansion code
HYDRAD: Field-aligned hydrodynamic equations in coronal loops solver

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ASCL (Astrophysics Source Code Library) @asclnet.bsky.social · Aug 10

Thirty codes were added to the ASCL in July 2025:

arctic_weather: High Arctic meteorological conditions analyzer
Capivara: Scalable spectral-based segmentation package
COBRA: Optimal Factorization of Cosmological Observables

#openscience

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Le désobéissant 🏴 @sybilchaos.bsky.social · Jul 5

I'm far from being an expert in this, but I licence anything I write, even though almost all of it is for personal use only.

The Free Software Foundation, who are experts in this field, are a super source for information.
www.fsf.org

Front Page — Free Software Foundation — working together for free software

The FSF has been campaigning for your software freedom for forty years. We can't prevent a dystopian future alone - join us in our crucial work to guard user freedom and defy dystopia. Become an associate member today!

www.fsf.org

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ASCL (Astrophysics Source Code Library) @asclnet.bsky.social · Jul 5

... licensed, however. We curate our site links; some are bad & remain that way. We'd like to be able to remedy all bad links.

What to do when code is not licensed?
When we don't have a code in our archive?

SW used in research should remain available to support that research; how can we improve?

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ASCL (Astrophysics Source Code Library) @asclnet.bsky.social · Jul 5

Thanks! I had to poke around in the archive file a bit & did find mention of a permissive license.

For this code, I created an archive file that includes the HTML page (& style info), include links to that archive & page (hosted by ASCL), & add an editor's note.

Many codes aren't ...

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ASCL (Astrophysics Source Code Library) @asclnet.bsky.social · Jul 5

Thanks, Ole! We (now) routinely push code sites (html pages) to Internet Archive & try to ensure the software is also archived there; we do adjust links to point there when needed (ex ascl.net/9909.004, ascl.net/9906.001).

We didn't always do this, though, & hadn't done so for this code, alas.

ASCL (Astrophysics Source Code Library) @asclnet.bsky.social · Jul 4

...would like to make the code available again.

How do you recommend we do this? What options do you see here?

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