backgrounds

A set tools for stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds data analysis.

Documentation

A documentation is available on Github pages: https://qbaghi.pages.in2p3.fr/backgrounds

Dependencies

Backgrounds requires LISA Constants and LISA GW Response from the LISA Simulation suite, which can be installed as

pip install git+https://@gitlab.in2p3.fr/lisa-simulation/constants.git@latest
pip install git+https://gitlab.in2p3.fr/lisa-simulation/gw-response.git@latest

To run the scripts in the tests folder it is recommanded to install the packages listed in the requirements:

pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt

Installation

Released version

Simply run

pip install backgrounds

Development version

You need to be part of the LISA Consortium and have access to the IN2P3 Gitlab to access the development version. This will change in the future.

Please clone the repository and do a manual installation:

git clone git@gitlab.in2p3.fr:qbaghi/backgrounds.git
cd backgrounds
pip install -e .

Acknowledgements

If you are using backgrounds in your work, please cite this paper:

@article{Baghi_2023,
doi = {10.1088/1475-7516/2023/04/066},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2023/04/066},
year = {2023},
month = {apr},
publisher = {IOP Publishing},
volume = {2023},
number = {04},
pages = {066},
author = {Baghi, Quentin and Karnesis, Nikolaos and Bayle, Jean-Baptiste and Besançon, Marc and Inchauspé, Henri},
title = {Uncovering gravitational-wave backgrounds from noises of unknown shape with LISA},
}