The SunPy project (also known as the SunPy organization) was founded and defined by this document.
Its primary goal is to facilitate and promote the use and development of a community-led, free and open-source solar data-analysis software based on the scientific Python environment.
The organization of a board of directors, a lead developer appointed by the board, community roles and the sunpy and affiliated package developers.
Anyone is welcome to participate in the SunPy organization.
The purpose of the board is to lead the overall structure and direction of SunPy while the lead developer works with the developer community to implement it.
Members of the development community are too numerous to list here but a list of anyone who contributed code to SunPy is available on Github contributors and for each major release we keep track of who contributed in-between releases.
Dr. Steven Christe is a research astrophysicist in the Solar Physics Laboratory at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. His science interests focus on hard X-ray emission from solar flares and the quiet Sun with particular emphasis on the statistics of small transient bursts such as solar microflares; hard X-ray emission associated with solar radio emission; and the application of hard X-ray focusing optics to solar observations.
David Pérez-Suárez is working now as a Research Software Developer at University College London. There he helps researchers to get better science via better software and teaches research software engineering to young scientists. He has studied the behavior of Coronal Bright Points with multi-instrument observations while at Armagh Observatory and participated in few EU virtual observatory projects to understand the heliosphere and the space weather effects on Earth while his jobs at Trinity College Dublin, the Finnish Meteorologica Institute, the South African National Space Agency and the Mullard Space Science Laboratory.
Stanford University in the W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, where she studies the Sun and space weather as a member of the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory science team. She previously worked at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, where she studied solar flares as a member of two NASA Heliophysics missions called TRACE and Hinode. Monica Bobra received a B.A. in Astronomy from Boston University and a M.S. in Physics from the University of New Hampshire.
Russell J. Hewett is a research scientist in computational science and engineering. He has worked in solar physics since 2000 and in addition to his PhD thesis on 3D tomography of the corona, he has spent time at NASA GSFC and Trinity College Dublin working on data processing, visualization, and science software for the RHESSI, SOHO, and STEREO satellite observatories. Russell earned a B.S. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech and a Ph.D. in Computer Science with a focus on Computational Science and Engineering from the University of Illinois and he was a postdoc in Applied Mathematics at MIT. He has extensive experience in scientific software for Python. He is now an assistant Professor of Mathematics at Virginia Tech.
Jack Ireland is a research scientist at the NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, working on coronal heating, solar flares and space weather. He has worked as a member of the SOHO, TRACE, Hinode and SDO mission teams. He also runs the Helioviewer Project, which designs systems and services that give users everywhere the capability to explore the Sun and inner heliosphere and to give transparent access to the underlying data. Jack received a B.Sc in Mathematics and Physics and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Glasgow, Scotland.
Sabrina Savage is a solar astrophysicist at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL. She received her Ph.D. in physics from Montana State University, where she began a career in satellite operations, and followed up with a NASA Postdoctoral fellowship at Goddard Space Flight Center studying flare energetics with the hard X-ray RHESSI satellite. She now serves as the US Project Scientist for the Japanese-led Hinode mission and works to develop solar instrumentation for sounding rockets and the International Space Station. Her research interests include observations of reconnection in the solar corona during long duration flaring events coupled with in situ complementary measurements of magnetic storms in the Earth's magnetosphere.
Stuart is the Python developer for the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope Data Centre. He obtained a PhD in Numerical solar physics from Sheffield University in 2016, prior to his PhD he obtained a first class MPhys degree in Physics with Planetary and Space Physics from The University of Wales Aberystwyth, during which he spent 5 months studying at UNIS on Svalbard in the high arctic.
Tiago Pereira is an Associate Professor at the University of Oslo, at the Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics and the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics. He received his Ph.D. from the Australian National University, working with 3D MHD models of the solar photosphere and spectral line formation. He subsequently was a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow at NASA Ames and LMSAL, studying the dynamic chromosphere and helping prepare for the IRIS mission. A member of the IRIS science team, Tiago's research focuses on understanding the solar chromosphere by combining multi-wavelength observations with MHD simulations.
Bin Chen is an Associate Professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, NJ, affiliated with the Department of Physics and the Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research. He received his Ph.D. in astronomy from University of Virginia in 2013. Prior to his appointment at NJIT, he was an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. His research interests focus on high-energy aspects of solar flares and coronal mass ejections based on observations at radio, X-ray, and other wavelengths. He has been working on instrumentation, software development, and data analysis for radio facilities including the Expanded Owens Valley Solar Array, Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array, and the Atacama Large (sub)Millimeter Array.
Stuart is the Python developer for the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope Data Centre. He obtained a PhD in Numerical solar physics from Sheffield University in 2016, prior to his PhD he obtained a first class MPhys degree in Physics with Planetary and Space Physics from The University of Wales Aberystwyth, during which he spent 5 months studying at UNIS on Svalbard in the high arctic.
Nabil Freij is working as Freelance Python developer. He was a research scientist at Universitat de les Illes Balears working on coronal heating and MHD waves. Nabil received a Master of Physics at the University of Warwick and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Sheffield.
Jack Ireland is a research scientist at the NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center, working on coronal heating, solar flares and space weather. He has worked as a member of the SOHO, TRACE, Hinode and SDO mission teams. He also runs the Helioviewer Project, which designs systems and services that give users everywhere the capability to explore the Sun and inner heliosphere and to give transparent access to the underlying data. Jack received a B.Sc in Mathematics and Physics and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Glasgow, Scotland.
David Pérez-Suárez is working now as a Research Software Developer at University College London. There he helps researchers to get better science via better software and teaches research software engineering to young scientists. He has studied the behavior of Coronal Bright Points with multi-instrument observations while at Armagh Observatory and participated in few EU virtual observatory projects to understand the heliosphere and the space weather effects on Earth while his jobs at Trinity College Dublin, the Finnish Meteorologica Institute, the South African National Space Agency and the Mullard Space Science Laboratory.
The following section list the maintainers for the various
sub-packages of the core library as well as the documentation maintainers.
Each area should have at least one but preferably two people identified. To
enable mentorship the two maintainers could include a lead and a deputy or
also two co-leads.
Some roles are currently not filled. We’d like to encourage members of the
community to inquire about volunteering.
Responsibilities of sub-package maintainers include
Evaluating and soliciting new pull requests which are consistent with the sub-package scope and contribution standards.
Providing material support for open pull requests to enable merging.
Maintaining and developing the sub-package roadmap consistent with the roadmap of the overall core package.
Mentoring the next generation of maintainers and developers.
Responsibilities of documentation maintainers include
Overseeing and improving content
Soliciting and implementing improvements and new additions to the content.
Maintaining and improving the documentation infrastructure.
An affiliated package is a Python package related to Solar Physics that is not part of the SunPy core library, but can be included in the future as part of the SunPy project’s community.
As a community-driven project SunPy thus encourages contributions from a diverse group of people on building such software that has the potential to be a future Affiliated SunPy Package.
Requirements to be satisfied:
The package must make use of all appropriate features in the core SunPy library, to reduce code duplication and complexity.
The software must provide documentation that explains the function and use of the package, and this documentation should be of comparable standard to the core SunPy library.
The code should as far as possible provide an easy to run test suite to verify the correct operation of the package.
The developers of an affiliated package should engage with the rest of the SunPy community to encourage knowledge and code sharing within
the community.
Please look at this SEP to read about our policies surrounding affiliated packages.
Please send an email to the mailing list to start a dialogue.
