Citing PhotutilsΒΆ
If you use Photutils for a project that leads to a publication, whether directly or as a dependency of another package, please include the following acknowledgment:
This research made use of Photutils, an Astropy package for
detection and photometry of astronomical sources (Bradley et al.
<YEAR>).
where (Bradley et al. <YEAR>) is a citation to the Zenodo record of the Photutils version that was used. We also encourage citations in the main text wherever appropriate.
BibTex files for all Photutils versions can be found at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.596036.
For example, for Photutils v1.12.0, one should cite Bradley et al. 2024 with the BibTeX entry (https://zenodo.org/records/10967176/export/bibtex):
@software{larry_bradley_2024_10967176,
author = {Larry Bradley and
Brigitta Sip{\H o}cz and
Thomas Robitaille and
Erik Tollerud and
Z\`e Vin{\'{\i}}cius and
Christoph Deil and
Kyle Barbary and
Tom J Wilson and
Ivo Busko and
Axel Donath and
Hans Moritz G{\"u}nther and
Mihai Cara and
P. L. Lim and
Sebastian Me{\ss}linger and
Zach Burnett and
Simon Conseil and
Michael Droettboom and
Azalee Bostroem and
E. M. Bray and
Lars Andersen Bratholm and
William Jamieson and
Adam Ginsburg and
Geert Barentsen and
Matt Craig and
Sergio Pascual and
Shivangee Rathi and
Marshall Perrin and
Brett M. Morris and
Gabriel Perren},
title = {astropy/photutils: 1.12.0},
month = apr,
year = 2024,
publisher = {Zenodo},
version = {1.12.0},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.10967176},
url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10967176}
}