Proceedings of the 9th Python in Science Conference, SciPy 2010, Austin, Texas, USA, June 28 - July 3, 2010

Authors: Gaël Varoquaux, Stefan van Der Walt, Jarrod Millman, Darren Dale, Prabhu Ramachandran, Brian Granger, Matthew Brett, Neil Muller, Emanuele Olivetti, James Turner, Elaine Angelo, Kurt Smith, Warde David, Farley, Tom Aldcroft, Astrodata Craig, Rob Speer, Kenneth Arnold, Catherine Theano, James Bergstra, Olivier Breuleux, Fr d ric Bastien, Pascal Lamblin, Razvan Pascanu, Guillaume Desjardins, Joseph Turian, David Warde-Farley, Yoshua Bengio, Steven Colbert, Gregor Franz, Konrad Woellhaf, Redwan Alqasemi, Rajiv Dubey, Kadambari Devarajan, Maria Echeverry-Galvis, Rajmonda Sulo, Jennifer Peterson, Eric Floehr, Perry Greenfield, Ivo Busko, Rosa Diaz, Vicki Laidler, Todd Miller, Mark Sienkiewicz, Megan Sosey, Jwst Mirrors, Warren Hack, Babak Saif, Bente Eegholm, Sean Davis, Matthew Henderson, Andrew Smith, Jan Meinke, Steven Morley, Daniel Welling, Josef Koller, Brian Larsen, Michael Henderson, Jonathan Niehof, Min Ragan-Kelley, John Verboncoeur, Chandrashekhar Kaushik, Helge Reikeras, Ben Herbst, Johan Du Preez, Herman Engelbrecht, Craig Allen, Catherine Havasi, Frdric Bastien, Eric Bickel, Matthew Henderson, Y Koren, R Bell, C Volinsky, J Konstan, J Riedl, A Borchers, J Herlocke, Juyang Weng, Yilu Zhang, Wey-Shiuan Hwang, Catherine Havasi, Robert Speer, Jason Alonso, Robert Speer, Catherine Havasi, Henry Lieberman, T Oliphant, L Bottou, F Alted, J Dongarra, J Du Croz, I Duff, S Hammarling, Ebl, P L'ecuyer, F Blouin, R Couture, D Kim, R Lovelett, A Behal, S Effendi, R Jarvis, D Suter, M Schlemmer, G Biegelbauer, M Vincze, F Liefhebber, J Sijs, D Kragic, M Bjorkman, H Christensen, J Eklundh, S Colbert, R Alqasemi, R Dubey, S Colbert, R Alqasemi, R Dubey, G Franz, K Woellhaf, A Laurentini, V Lippiello, F Ruggiero, L Breiman, J Burger, M Gochfeld, N Collias, E Collias, N Collias, E Collias, J Ferguson, W Siegfried, J Hunter, R Jovani, J Tella, T Oliphant, F Prez, B Granger, J Picman, R Pitmanc, R Pringle, T Young, D Rubenstein, D Mc-Cauley, P Ramachandran, G Varoquaux, G Schnell, J Bickel, Eric Eric, Floehr, S Grosvenor, C Burkhardt, A Koratkar, M Fishman, K Wolf, J Jones, L Ruley, V Laidler, P Greenfield, I Busko, R Jedrzejewski, A Bartlett, T Chartier, A Langville, T Rankin, D Brelaz, R Lewis, I Lynce, Ouaknine, H Simonis, J Gago-Vargas, I Hartillo-Hermosa, J Martin-Morales, J Ucha-Enriquez, P Cock, T Antao, J Chang, B Chapman, C Cox, A Dalke, I Friedberg, T Hamelryck, F Kauff, B Wilczynski, M De Hoon, A Sali, T Blundell, J Hunter, F Eisenmenger, U Hansmann, S Hayryan, C Hu, J Meinke, S Mohanty, F Eisenmenger, U Hansmann, Smmp, K Hinsen, J Mortensen, L Hansen, K Jacobsen, N Metropolis, A Rosenbluth, M Rosenbluth, A Teller, E Teller, K Hukushima, K Nemoto, H Nagesh, S Goil, A Choudhary, C Chree, O Cohen, I Sokolov, I Roussev, T, J King, N, Y Ma, A Nagy, G Toth, T Cravens, C Russell, T Gombosi, J.-E Wahlund, F Crary, A Coates, C Bertucci, F Neubauer, M Mlynczak, L Hunt, J Kozyra, J, S Morley, M Freeman, S Morley, R Friedel, E Spanswick, G Reeves, J Steinberg, J Koller, T Cayton, E Noveroske, K Powell, P Roe, T Linde, T Gombosi, D De Zeeuw, Z Qin, R Denton, N Tsyganenko, S Wolf, A Ridley, M, G Toth, D Zeeuw, T Gombosi, W Manchester, A Ridley, I Sokolov, I Roussev, R Vainio, L Desorgher, D Heynderickx, M Storini, E Fluckiger, R Horne, G Kovaltsov, K Kudela, M Laurenza, S Mckenna-Lawlor, H Rothkaehl, I, D Welling, A Ridley, J Wild, E Woodfield, S Morley, J Verboncoeur, A Langdon, N Gladd, R Gingold, J Monaghan, L Lucy, J Monaghan, J Morris, P Fox, Yi Zhu, Travis Oliphant, S Ganzenmuller, S Pinkenburg, W Rosenstiel, S Davis, I Matthews, B Lucas, T Kanade, T Cootes, G Edwards, C Taylor, S Baker, I Matthews, I Matthews, S Baker, M Altman, M Mcdonald, C Choirat, R Seri, J Cryer, K Chan, A Isaac, J Longley, A Yalta, R Lucchetti, A Yalta, A Yalta - Proceedings of the Python in Science Conferences 2010 cited by 132

The Chandra X-ray Observatory has been providing groundbreaking astronomical data since its launch by NASA in July of 1999. Now starting the second decade of science the Chandra operations team has been using Python to create predictive thermal models of key spacecraft components. These models are being used in the mission planning and command load review process to ensure that the series of planned observations and attitudes for each week will maintain a safe thermal environment. Speaking from my perspective as a scientist working to create and calibrate the models, I will discuss the process and the key off-the-shelf tools that made it all possible. This includes fitting many-parameter models with the Sherpa package, parallel computation with mpi4py/MPICH2, large table manipulations with pytables/HDF5, and of course fast array math with NumPy.