v0.6.0

What's Changed

Updated supported dependency versions [#419]:

• Python >= 3.9
• numpy >= 1.26
• scipy >= 1.10

New Features

sbpy.activity.gas

• Added active and quiet sun photolysis rates for H2O and CO2 from Huebner &
  Mukherjee 2015 to sbpy.activity.gas.photo_timescale. [#425]

sbpy.names

• Added functionality to sbpy.Names.from_packed() and
  sbpy.Names.to_packed() to handle new extended provisional designations
  to be implemented by the MPC in anticipation of higher asteroid discovery
  rates in the LSST survey era. [#406]

sbpy.data.ephem

• New command-line script: sbpy-ephem. [#396]

API Changes

sbpy.activity.gas

• Data source is now a required parameter for
  sbpy.activity.gas.photo_lengthscale and sbpy.activity.gas.photo_timescale.
  If the data source is None, then a table of sources will be printed.
  [#425]

sbpy.activity.gas.productionrate

• Data source is now a required parameter for
  sbpy.activity.gas.productionrate.beta_factor. [#425]

sbpy.ginga_plugins

• Deprecated sbpy.ginga_plugins in favor of using sbpy-ginga at
  https://github.com/NASA-Planetary-Science/sbpy-ginga [#413]

Other Changes and Additions

sbpy.activity.gas

• Replaced calls to the deprecated function scipy.integrate.romberg with
  scipy.integrate.quad. [#412]

sbpy.names

• Fixed sbpy.Names.to_packed() to raise an error in cases of invalid
  cometary designations with fragment specifiers (e.g., "2024 A-A" and
  "2024 A-AA" now correctly raise TargetNameParseError exceptions) [#417]

• Fixed sbpy.Names.parse_comet() to raise an error in cases of a
  provisional asteroid designation submitted with no space after the
  year (e.g., "2015XN77"), which was previously being interpreted as a
  well-formed comet designation (i.e., with number=2015, type=X, and
  name=N77), but now raises a TargetNameParseError [#422]

• Fixed sbpy.Names.parse_asteroid() to raise an error in cases of a
  provisional comet designation submitted with no forward slash between
  the lead character and the year, and no space after the year (e.g.,
  "P2015XN77"), which was previously being interpreted as a packed
  asteroid designation, but now raises a TargetNameParseError [#422]

New Contributors

• @hhsieh00 made their first contribution in #406