From: Ken Dere – kdere@gmu.edu

ChiantiPy – a Python interface to the CHIANTI atomic database for astrophysical
spectroscopy

http://chiantipy.sourceforge.net/

We are pleased to announce the release of ChiantiPy, a Python package for calculating synthetic spectra from the CHIANTI atomic database for astrophysical spectroscopy. ChiantiPy provides the same functionality as the existing IDL package. One benefit of ChiantiPy is that it uses Python, a freely available programming language. ChiantiPy is constructed as an object-oriented package that provides a good match to the modular construction of the CHIANTI database itself. Our intention is to maintain both the IDL and Python packages for the indefinite future.

The documentation for ChiantiPy can be found at

http://chiantipy.sourceforge.net/

and the software package can be downloaded from

http://sourceforge.net/projects/chiantipy/

Python is available for Windows, Mac OS, Linux and Unix. ChiantiPy itself has been developed on a Linux platform and has received most of its testing on Linux. In software development terminology, it is an ‘alpha’ release, meaning it has not really undergone sufficient testing in a variety of environments. We welcome reports of user’s experiences on the chiantipy-users email list on Sourceforge:

chiantipy-users@lists.sourceforge.net

In addition, several discussion forums have been set up at

http://sourceforge.net/projects/chiantipy/forums