A Survey of Computational Tools in Solar Physics

Between February 7, 2019 and July 28, 2019, The SunPy Project opened a 13-question survey to understand the software and hardware usage of the solar physics community. The survey was similar to one conducted by Ivelina Momcheva and Erik Tollerud in 2015, who surveyed 1142 astronomers about software use in astrophysics.

This repository contains the raw data from the survey responses (n=368) (in raw_survey_responses_no_comments.csv and free_form_comments.csv) alongside the source code to analyze these data (computational_tools_in_solar_physics.ipynb).

Citation

We presented the results of this survey in a paper published on April 20, 2020 (DOI: 10.1007/s11207-020-01622-2). If you use the code in this repository or reference the survey results, please consider citing our paper. Here is the BibTeX entry for the paper:

@ARTICLE{sunpysurvey,
    author = {{Bobra}, Monica G. and {Mumford}, Stuart J. and {Hewett}, Russell J. and {Christe}, Steven D. and {Reardon}, Kevin and {Savage}, Sabrina and {Ireland}, Jack and {Pereira}, Tiago M.~D. and {Chen}, Bin and {P{\'e}rez-Su{\'a}rez}, David},
    title = "{A Survey of Computational Tools in Solar Physics}",
    journal = {Solar Physics},
    year = 2020,
    month = apr,
    volume = {295},
    number = {4},
    eid = {57},
    pages = {57},
    doi = {10.1007/s11207-020-01622-2}
}