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ADASS 2025 software prize nominations

The ADASS Prize for an Outstanding Contribution to Astronomical Software is awarded every year at the annual conference. Eligible candidates are the developers of astronomical software ranging from those that have stood the test of time to those that are new and cutting edge. Depending on the software and the nomination, the award is given to either a group or an individual. Nominations can be for a single program, a package or a library.

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Mark Calabretta for his wcslib - a pillar of observational astronomy since 1995
by Dirk Petry
 
CFITSIO already got the prize. It would be logical to also award it to wcslib, which is the other... more
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wcslib is a high-precision, well tested, efficient tool. An example of how to provide good softwa... more
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Numpy, Matplotlib, and PyFITS: the Foundations of Astronomical Python
by Paul Barrett
Astropy would not exist without the early development efforts of a small group of software develo... more
 
Rick White, Perry Greenfield, and the rest of the gang should be acknowledged for their foresight... more
by Pebarrett
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numpy and matplotlib are not specific for astronomy. We might as well start awarding prizes to th... more
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TOPCAT (and STILTS, and STIL)
For the continuous support to interoperability and the growing set of features in accessing and m... more
 
Without TOPCAT, my scientific productivity would be half (or even less) from what is is now
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CIAO: Chandra Interactive Analysis of Observations
by David Pooley
First released in 1999, the Chandra Interactive Analysis of Observations (CIAO) software package ... more
 
Having worked with data and software from many, many satellites, I can confidently say that the C... more
by Dpooley
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Emmanuel Bertin
by Martin Kuemmel
 
The Astromatic software suite is since several decades now the central software package in ground... more
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AIPS by Eric Greisen
by Brian Svoboda
Pioneering radio astronomy calibration and imaging software: Astronomical Image Processing System... more
 
First released in 1980, AIPS was the first major free (GPL) as well as cross-platform software sy... more
by Brian Svoboda
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Gabe Brammoer
by Karl Glazebrook
Gabe Brammer (gabriel.brammer@nbi.ku.dk) has made enormous contributions to our study of the earl... more
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Aitor Ibarra
by Bob Hanisch
Nomination of Aitor Ibarra Ibaibarriaga for the ADASS Award for Major Achievement in Astronomical... more
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ESASky (http://sky.esa.int/), an open-access discovery portal for professionals and amateurs to visualise cosmic objects near and far across the electromagnetic spectrum. Launched in 2016, it contains half a million images, 300,000 spectra, and more than one billion catalogue sources from ESA and... more
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