PlasmaPy

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Authors: PlasmaPy Community; Murphy, Nicholas A.; Everson, Erik T.; Stańczak-Marikin, Dominik; Heuer, Peter V.; Kozlowski, Pawel M.; Johnson, Elliot T.; +135 Authors

PlasmaPy Community; Murphy, Nicholas A.; Everson, Erik T.; Stańczak-Marikin, Dominik; Heuer, Peter V.; Kozlowski, Pawel M.; Johnson, Elliot T.; Malhotra, Ritiek; Schaffner, David A.; Vincena, Stephen T.; Abler, Mel; Addison, James; Ahamed, Ataf Fazledin; Alarcon, Paula Valentina; Antognetti, Benjamin; Arran, Christopher; Bagherianlemraski, Haman; Beckers, Jasper; Bedmutha, Manas; Bedoya-Lopez, Camilo; Bergeron, Justin; Bessi, Ludovico; Britten, Riley; Brown, Shane; Bryant, Khalil; Carroll, Sean; Cartagena-Sanchez, Carlos; Chambers, Sean; Chattopadhyay, Ankur; Choubey, Apoorv; Choudhary, Sarthak; Clauss, Christian; Clément, Robert; Colom, Sebastian; Davies, Chase; Deal, Jacob; Decristoforo, Gregor; Diaz Riega, Diego A.; Dover, Fionnlagh Mackenzie; Drozdov, David; Du, Tiger; Einhorn, Leah; Ervin, Tamar; Fan, Thomas; Farid, Samaiyah I.; Ferdman, Emmanuel; Fischer, Michael; Foo, Bryan; Fütterer, Heinz-Alexander; Gangadharan, Rajagopalan; Gerow, Seth; Getahun, Mahlet; Gonzalez, Jessica; Goodall, Brian; Gorelli, Marco; Gordon-McKeon, Shauna; Goudeau, Graham; Guidoni, Silvina; Guimiot, Julia; Haggerty, Colby; Hansen, Raymon Skjørten; Haque, Mohammed; Hillairet, Julien; Hoang, Chris; How, Poh Zi; Huang, Yi-Min; Humphrey, Nabil; Isupova, Maria; Jeandet, Alexis; Jones, Evan; Kastek, Marcin; Kent, James; Klima, Dusan; Köhn-Seemann, Alf; Kulshrestha, Siddharth; Kumar, Sundaran; Kuszaj, Piotr; Langendorf, Samuel; Lanteri, Anna; Lee, Terrance Takho; Leonard, Drew; Lequette, Nicolas; Lim, Pey Lian; Magarde, Aditya; Martinelli, Joao Victor; Masood, Muhammad; McHardy, Isaias; Modi, Dhawal; Montes, Kevin; Mumford, Stuart; Munn, Joshua; Murphy, Leo; Nie, Suzanne; Ortiz, Carlos; Panda, Shivam; Pannala, Mahima; Parashar, Tulasi; Patel, Neil; Pavon, Francisco Silva; Pérez, Roberto Díaz; Pitzer, Preston; Polak, Jakub; Qudsi, Ramiz; Raj, Raajit; Rajashekar, Vishwas; Rao, Afzal; Reep, Jeffrey; Richardson, Steve; Roberts, Jayden; Rodriguez, Shanshan; Rojas Zelaya, Reynaldo; Salcido, Armando; Savcheva, Antonia; Schneck, Cora; Shen, Chengcai; Sheng, Andrew; Sherpa, Dawa Nurbu; Silvestri, Luciano; Simon, Trestan; Singh, Angad; Singh, Ankit; Sipőcz, Brigitta; Skinner, Cody; Skrzypczak, Tomasz Adam; Smirnov, Nikita; Smith, Joseph; Sobeske, Stuart; Spedicato, Matteo; Stansby, David; Stinson, Tomás; Sugiharto, Shelley; Švancarová, Michaela; Tavant, Antoine; Tranquilino, Veronica; Ulrich, Thomas; Valle, Mychal; Varnish, Thomas; Vo, Tien; Wu, Tingfeng; Xu, Sixue; Yip, Chun Hei; Zhang, Carol;

PlasmaPy

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Abstract

PlasmaPy is an open source Python package for plasma research and education. PlasmaPy is intended to contain core functionality needed by plasma scientists across disciplines. The plasmapy.particles subpackage contains object-oriented and functional interfaces to represent and access basic particle data. The plasmapy.formulary subpackage contains functionality to calculate common plasma parameters, including many functions from the NRL Plasma Formulary. The plasmapy.dispersion subpackage can be used to calculate the dispersion relationships of several plasma waves, as well as the plasma dispersion function and its derivative. The plasmapy.analysis and plasmapy.diagnostics subpackage contain functionality to analyze plasma data sets. These subpackage include functionality for Thomson scattering, synthetic charged particle radiography, Langmuir probe data analysis, and finding null points in 3D magnetic field data.

Development of PlasmaPy has also been supported by NASA Heliophysics Data Environment Enhancements (HDEE) grant 80NSSC20K0174, a Scholarly Studies grant awarded by the Smithsonian Institution, and Google Summer of Code.

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Keywords

particles, proton radiography, heliophysics, plasma diagnostics, plasma physics, plasma parameters, plasma astrophysics, fusion energy, open source software, open source, plasma science, plasma physics, Python, Langmuir probes, Thomson scattering, Python, solar physics

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