Usage and Examples

1. Population Generation: Generate a gravitational wave source population by specifying parameters such as the local merger rate, distribution functions, and additional keyword arguments.

2. Generating Detector Noise: Simulate coloured Gaussian or zero noise using a provided or default power spectrum to represent the detector noise.

3. Injecting Signals: Inject gravitational wave signal(s) into the generated detector data using the previously generated population and a chosen waveform model.

4. Fisher Forecasts: Forecast parameter-estimation uncertainties for a source or a whole population with the Fisher matrix, optionally with the second-order DALI correction for non-Gaussian posteriors.

5. Detector Response: Project signals onto the detectors with a frequency- and time-dependent antenna response, which drops the long-wavelength and static-pattern approximations that break for XG detectors.

I have curated some examples below for reference. Please give them a try!

Contents:

• Simulating the source population
  • Redshift
  • Mass
  • Spin
  • Extrinsic
  • EOS (Equation of State)
• Simulating the detector noise
  • How the noise is generated
  • Overriding a detector’s noise curve
• Injecting a signal
  • Detector response
• Detector response
  • Using it
  • The physics
  • Validation
• Fisher and DALI Forecasts
  • Quick start
  • Step sizes (Claudio speaking)
  • Response corrections
  • Priors
  • Output
  • Two waveforms, one binary
• A workflow for gwforge

To generate the documentation, just run:

sphinx-autobuild docs/source/ docs/build/html/