SunPy - Python for Solar Physics
The SunPy Community, Stuart J Mumford, Steven Christe, David, P\'erez-Su\'arez, Jack Ireland, Albert Y Shih, Andrew R Inglis, Simon, Liedtke, Russell J Hewett, Florian Mayer, Keith Hughitt, Nabil Freij, Tomas, Meszaros, Samuel M Bennett, Michael Malocha, John Evans

TL;DR
SunPy is an open-source Python package designed for solar physics data analysis, integrating various solar data sources and leveraging Python's scientific ecosystem to facilitate research and visualization.
Contribution
This paper introduces SunPy 0.5, a comprehensive, community-developed Python toolkit specifically for solar physics data analysis, integrating multiple data sources and existing Python tools.
Findings
Supports data from major solar missions like SDO, SOHO, STEREO, IRIS
Provides access to solar data via VSO, HEK, and HELIO webservices
Enables solar data analysis using Python's scientific libraries
Abstract
This paper presents SunPy (version 0.5), a community-developed Python package for solar physics. Python, a free, cross-platform, general-purpose, high-level programming language, has seen widespread adoption among the scientific community, resulting in the availability of a large number of software packages, from numerical computation (NumPy, SciPy) and machine learning (scikit-learn) to visualisation and plotting (matplotlib). SunPy is a data-analysis environment specialising in providing the software necessary to analyse solar and heliospheric data in Python. SunPy is open-source software (BSD licence) and has an open and transparent development workflow that anyone can contribute to. SunPy provides access to solar data through integration with the Virtual Solar Observatory (VSO), the Heliophysics Event Knowledgebase (HEK), and the HELiophysics Integrated Observatory (HELIO)…
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