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List of Projects Coming from AstroHackWeek

We'd like to track the effect of the Hack Week! If you have any tangible outputs (released code packages, published papers, university courses, conference workshops, etc.) which were inspired or informed by your participation at AstroHackWeek, please add them to the list here!

Code Releases & Contributions

• Nestle: Nested sampling in Python Kyle Barbary (repo)
• gatspy: General tools for Astronomical Time Series in Python Jake VanderPlas (repo)

Papers & Publications

• Periodograms for Multiband Astronomical Time Series Jake VanderPlas & Zeljko Ivezic (see also paper repo and the gatspy code)
• The Mass Distribution of Companions to Low-mass White Dwarfs (Jeff Andrews, Adrian Price-Whelan, Marcel Agüeros)
• Optical characterization of gaps in directly bonded Si compound optics using infrared spectroscopy (Gully-Santiago, Jaffe, & White) and GitHub Repository

University Courses

• Astr 599, 2014 (Jake VanderPlas)

Conferences & Workshops

• Computing the Universe 2015 (Oliver Zahn – workshop inspired by AstroHackWeek 2014)
• Bayesian Methods in Astronomy: Hands-on Statistics (AAS227) (Jake VanderPlas)
• ESAC Data Analysis and Statistics Workshop 2014 (Jake VanderPlas)

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