Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy

We present the first public version (v0.2) of the open-source and community-developed Python package, Astropy. This package provides core astronomy-related functionality to the community, including support for domain-specific file formats such as flexibl

astroquery: An Astronomical Web-querying Package in Python

Astroquery is a collection of tools for requesting data from databases hosted on remote servers with interfaces exposed on the Internet, including those with web pages but without formal application program interfaces. These tools are built on the Python requests package, which is used to make HTTP requests, and astropy, which provides most of the data parsing functionality. astroquery modules generally attempt to replicate the web page interface provided by a given service as closely as possible, making the transition from browser-based to command-line interaction easy. astroquery has received significant contributions from throughout the astronomical community, including several from telescope archives. astroquery enables the creation of fully reproducible workflows from data acquisition through publication. This paper describes the philosophy, basic structure, and development model of the astroquery package. The complete documentation for astroquery can be found at http://astroquery.readthedocs.io/

astropy/astroquery: v0.4.5

What's Changed Update Spectra URLs by @weaverba137 in https://github.com/astropy/astroquery/pull/2214ALMA integration tests fix by @andamian in https://github.com/astropy/astroquery/pull/2224Fix doc build issues by @bsipocz in https://github.com/astropy/astroquery/pull/2226Allow retrieval from a previous ESO archive request by @gbrammer in https://github.com/astropy/astroquery/pull/1614Turn off default verbosity for TapPlus by @bsipocz in https://github.com/astropy/astroquery/pull/2228Refreshing content of RTD config by @bsipocz in https://github.com/astropy/astroquery/pull/2229NED: String has to remain raw by @bsipocz in https://github.com/astropy/astroquery/pull/2230eJWST prelaunch by @jespinosaar in https://github.com/astropy/astroquery/pull/2140MNT: Cleanup of old unused code and configs by @bsipocz in https://github.com/astropy/astroquery/pull/2231Adding changelog rendering to narrative docs by @bsipocz in https://github.com/astropy/astroquery/pull/2233Mast cloudaccess docs update by @jaymedina in https://github.com/astropy/astroquery/pull/2235eJWST release by @jespinosaar in https://github.com/astropy/astroquery/pull/2238eJWST: remove disclaimer for release by @jespinosaar in https://github.com/astropy/astroquery/pull/2243Fix to allow html downloads with alma package by @andamian in https://github.com/astropy/astroquery/pull/2246Deprecate astroquery/utils/download_file_list.py by @eerovaher in https://github.com/astropy/astroquery/pull/2247Expand contribution guidelines by @keflavich in https://github.com/astropy/astroquery/pull/2248Fix for issue #2237: do not cache results that cannot be parsed. by @mkelley in https://github.com/astropy/astroquery/pull/2253Adding python 3.10 to CI by @bsipocz in https://github.com/astropy/astroquery/pull/2186 New Contributors @gbrammer made their first contribution in https://github.com/astropy/astroquery/pull/1614 Full Changelog: https://github.com/astropy/astroquery/compare/v0.4.4...v0.4.

Association of COVID-19 Versus COVID-19 Vaccination With Kidney Function and Disease Activity in Primary Glomerular Disease: A Report of the Cure Glomerulonephropathy Study

Patients with glomerular disease (GN) may be at increased risk of severe COVID-19, yet concerns over vaccines causing disease relapse may lead to vaccine hesitancy. We examined the associations of COVID-19 with longitudinal kidney function and proteinuria and compared these to similar associations with COVID-19 vaccination. Observational cohort study from July 1, 2021 to Jan. 1, 2023. & Participants: A prospective observational study network of 71 centers from North America and Europe (CureGN) with children and adults with primary minimal change disease, focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, membranous nephropathy, or IgA nephropathy. COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccination. Repeated measure of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR); recurrent time-to-event outcome of GN disease worsening as defined by doubling of UPCR to at least 1.5g/g or increase in dipstick urine protein by two ordinal levels to 3+ (300mg/dL) or above. Interrupted time series analysis for eGFR. Prognostic matched sequential stratification recurrent event analysis for GN disease worsening. Among 2,055 participants, 722 (35%) reported COVID-19; of these, 92 (13%) were hospitalized and 3 died (<1%). eGFR slope pre-COVID-19 was -1.40ml/min/1.73m2 (SD 0.29), and -4.26ml/min/1.73m2 (SD 3.02) within 6 months post-COVID-19, which were not significantly different (p=0.34). COVID-19 was associated with increased risk of worsening GN disease activity (HR 1.35, 95% CI 1.01-1.80). Vaccination was not associated with change in eGFR (-1.34ml/min/1.73m2, SD 0.15 vs -2.16ml/min/1.73m2, SD 1.74; p=0.6) or subsequent GN disease worsening (HR 1.02, 95% CI 0.79–1.33) in this cohort. Infrequent or short follow-up. Among patients with primary GN, COVID-19 was severe for 1 in 8 cases and was associated with subsequent worsening of GN disease activity, as defined by proteinuria. In contrast, vaccination against COVID-19 was not associated with change in disease activity or kidney function decline. These results support COVID-19 vaccination for patients with GN. In this cohort study of 2,055 patients with minimal change disease, focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, membranous nephropathy, or IgA nephropathy, COVID-19 resulted in hospitalization or death for 1 in 8 cases and was associated with a 35% increase in risk for worsening proteinuria. In contrast, vaccination did not appear to adversely affect kidney function or proteinuria. Our data support vaccination for COVID-19 in patients with glomerular disease