Released Iris v2.1 beta in May

• transitioned from VAO to SAO support last October
• plan to transition from beta in Sept to give time for feedback from the community
• New developer started this week that will work on Iris upgrades

What is new in 2.1

• It is now possible to integrate under fitted model components
• Template models can now be combined with regular models
• SEDs can be statistically combined
• Iris has been repackaged

Packaging

• Iris is now available through the conda package manager
• Java GUI ⇄ SAMP ⇄ Python backends:
  • Sherpa for modeling
  • SedStacker
• Sherpa and SedStacker are available on GitHub as standalone packages

Future: Short List

• More resources available through ASDC plug-in
• Support Spectral DM 2.0
• Document standalone Python API

Future: Long Term

• Replace the visualizer:
  • Specview4Iris cannot be maintained
  • Support high resolution spectra
• Support Cube DM

A KDD science case

Courtesy of Raffaele D'Abrusco