Citing Photutils

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 v2.0.2, one should cite Bradley et al. 2024 with the BibTeX entry (https://zenodo.org/records/13989456/export/bibtex):

@software{larry_bradley_2024_13989456,
  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
                  Simon Conseil and
                  Zach Burnett and
                  Azalee Bostroem and
                  Michael Droettboom and
                  E. M. Bray and
                  Lars Andersen Bratholm and
                  Adam Ginsburg and
                  William Jamieson and
                  Geert Barentsen and
                  Matt Craig and
                  Brett M. Morris and
                  Marshall Perrin and
                  Shivangee Rathi and
                  Sergio Pascual and
                  Iskren Y. Georgiev},
  title        = {astropy/photutils: 2.0.2},
  month        = oct,
  year         = 2024,
  publisher    = {Zenodo},
  version      = {2.0.2},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.13989456},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13989456},
}