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Imad Pasha

Astronomical Python

An introduction to modern scientific programming

Imad Pasha

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English
Institute of Physics Publishing
17 May 2024
Astronomical observation: observatories, equipment & methods; Mathematical physics
Series: IOP ebooks
Over the past two decades, Python has become the de facto standard language of data science both in industry and astronomy (with the exception of simulations and other extreme scale computing problems). This course text is a full introduction to programming in Python with an explicit focus on astrophysical applications. The book covers the fundamentals of Python, including the native data types and operations, and how the language, interpreter, and operating system work together. Leaning heavily on standard packages used in astronomy, the book covers the installation and basic structure of the language and libraries; script writing, conditional statements, loops, and other code structures that allow for complex outcome management; the creation and use of functions and classes within Python; the creation of packages and the methods for re-using, importing, and otherwise standardizing code; and plotting. Finally, the book contains several higher level chapters that carry students from the beginner stage of programming into the intermediate.

Key Features

Provides a comprehensive but accessible introduction to astronomy with Python for beginner undergraduate students Includes modern, worked out examples using real astronomical data Includes interactivity, including with various coding examples
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Imprint:   Institute of Physics Publishing
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 254mm,  Width: 178mm, 
ISBN:   9780750351454
ISBN 10:   0750351454
Series:   IOP ebooks
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
1 Introduction Part I Unix and Basic Python 2 Essential Unix Skills 3 Installing Python and the Astronomy Stack 4 Introduction to Python Part II Core Research Libraries 5 Visualization with Matplotlib 6 Numpy 7 SciPy 8 Astropy and Associated Packages Part III Intermediate Applications and Patterns 9 Functions and Functional Programming 10 Classes and Object Oriented Programming 11 Data Science with Astronomical Catalogs 12 Vectorization and Runtime Improvements 13 Astronomical Inference 14 Software Development 15 Conclusions and Next Steps

Imad Pasha is an NSF Graduate Research Fellow and PhD candidate at Yale University. Before Yale, he earned Bachelors degrees in Physics and Astrophysics from University of California, Berkeley, as well as a minor in Creative Writing. He worked as a reporter, senior editor, and photographer at The Daily Californian, the newspaper of record in Berkeley, CA. At Yale, his research has focused broadly on the processes driving galaxy evolution. He is interested in particular in how gas is accreted onto galaxies from the cosmic web, processed into stars, and (partially) expelled back out into the intergalactic medium, to be potentially later re-accreted.

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