popsummary 0.1.0

A Python API for interfacing with standardized LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Rates and Populations results

popsummary

A Python API for interfacing with standardized LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Rates and Populations results.

Description

Hierarchical population inference of gravitational wave sources results in a number of standard data products. popsummary defines a standardized hdf5-based format for these results. The Python API enables reading and writing to this format and depends primarily on h5py and numpy.

Installation

Via pip (recommended):

pip install popsummary

Via conda-forge (coming soon):

conda install -c conda-forge popsummary

From Source:

git clone https://git.ligo.org/RatesAndPopulations/popsummary.git
cd popsummary
pip install .

Usage

See the examples folder for a tutorial notebook and other basic examples in python.

Support

Feel free to leave a git issue if you encounter any problems or have any feature requests. Also see our wiki page for more information.

Authors and acknowledgment

Primary Authors

• Christian Adamcewicz
• Storm Colloms (Reviewer)
• Zoheyr Doctor

Contributors

• Colm Talbot
• Tom Callister