gwpopulation 1.0.0rc1

Unified population inference

GWPopulation

A collection of parametric binary black hole mass/spin population models.

These are formatted to be consistent with the Bilby hyper-parameter inference package.

For an example using this code to analyse the first gravitational-wave transient catalog (GWTC-1) see here.

Automatically generated docs can be found here.

If you're using this for production analyses, you may be interested in the associated pipeline code gwpopulation_pipe.

Attribution

Please cite Talbot et al (2019) if you find this package useful.

@ARTICLE{2019PhRvD.100d3030T,
       author = {{Talbot}, Colm and {Smith}, Rory and {Thrane}, Eric and
         {Poole}, Gregory B.},
        title = "{Parallelized inference for gravitational-wave astronomy}",
      journal = {\prd},
         year = 2019,
        month = aug,
       volume = {100},
       number = {4},
          eid = {043030},
        pages = {043030},
          doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.100.043030},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
       eprint = {1904.02863},
 primaryClass = {astro-ph.IM},
}

Additionally, please consider citing the original references for the implemented models which should be include in docstrings.

Most of the models implemented are derived from models presented in one of:

• Talbot & Thrane (2017)
• Talbot & Thrane (2018)
• Wysocki et al. (2018)
• Fishbach et al. (2019)