v0.4.0

• Updated minimum supported versions:
  • Python 3.8
  • numpy 1.18
  • astropy 4.3
  • synphot 1.1
  • astroquery 0.4.5

New Features

sbpy.activity

• Added VectorialModel.binned_production constructor for compatibility with
  time-dependent production implemented in the original FORTRAN vectorial model
  code by Festou. [#336]

• Added VMResult, VMFragmentSputterPolar, VMParams,
  VMGridParams, VMFragment, and VMParent dataclasses to expose
  details of VectorialModel results that may be of interest. [#336]

sbpy.calib

• Added a model spectrum of the Sun from STScI's CALSPEC database (Bohlin et al.
  2014, PASP 126, 711, DOI:10.1086/677655). [#371]

sbpy.data

• Added Orbit.tisserand to calculate the Tisserand parameter of small body's
  orbits with respect to planets. [#325]

• Added Orbit.D_criterion to evaluate the D-criterion between two sets of
  orbital elements. [#325]

• Added DataClass.__contains__ to enable in operator for DataClass
  objects. [#357]

• Added DataClass.add_row, DataClass.vstack methods. [#367]

sbpy.photometry

• Added parameter constraints to the IAU disk-integrated phase function models,
  such as HG, HG1G2, HG12, and HG12_Pen16. [#366]

Documentation

• Index page has been reorganized. [#337]

API Changes

sbpy.activity

• VectorialModel now no longer takes an angular_substeps parameter. [#336]

sbpy.data

• IAU HG series functions moved from sbpy.photometry.core to sbpy.photometry.iau. [#354]

sbpy.photometry

• Replaced NonmonotonicPhaseFunctionWarning with
  InvalidPhaseFunctionWarning. [#366]

Bug Fixes

sbpy.calib

• Updated STScI URLs for solar spectra (Castelli and Kurucz models). [#345]

sbpy.data

• Cometary magnitudes obtained via Phys.from_sbdb (i.e., M1 and M2) now have
  appropriate units. [#349]

• Asteroids with A/ designations (e.g., A/2019 G2) are correctly identified by
  Names as asteroids. Improved handling of interstellar object (I/)
  designations: they do not parse as cometary or asteroidal. [#334, #340]

v0.3.1

Bug fix for online documentation.

v0.3.0

See CHANGES.rst for the full change log.

v0.2.2

Tagging v0.2.2

First Year of Development (v0.2)

This release includes mostly complete functionality for dealing with data, calibrations, and bibliography. Limited functionality is available for the modeling of gas and dust activity, as well as disk-integrated photometry.

Future releases are expected to be backward-compatible to this release.

JOSS publication

minor updates from version 0.1 from JOSS review process

first official release

First release with limited and preliminary functionality in data, photometry, activity, and spectroscopy.