Practices in source code sharing in astrophysics

Astronomy and Computing

Volumn 1, Issue , 2013, Pages 54-58

  Shamir, Lior ^a   Wallin, John F ^b   Allen, Alice ^c   Berriman, Bruce ^d   Teuben, Peter ^e   Nemiroff, Robert J ^f   Mink, Jessica ^g   Hanisch, Robert J ^h   DuPrie, Kimberly ^c  

^a LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ASCL ^*  (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^f MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^h STScI   (United States)

Author keywords

Open source; Scientific software; Software sharing; Software validation; Source code

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ASTROPHYSICS; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

OPEN SOURCES; SCIENTIFIC SOFTWARES; SOFTWARE SHARING; SOFTWARE VALIDATION; SOURCE CODES;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 84877879241     PISSN: 22131337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ascom.2013.04.001     Document Type: Article

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