tcallister/pycbc

Analyze gravitational-wave data, find signals, and study their parameters. This package was used in the first direct detection of gravitational waves (GW150914), and is used in the ongoing analysis of LIGO/Virgo data.

Welcome to PyCBC, a python toolkit for analysis of data from gravitational-wave laser interferometer detectors with the goal of detecting and studying signals from compact binary coalescences (CBCs).

The PyCBC home page is located on github at

• https://ligo-cbc.github.io/

Documentation is automatically built nightly and available from

• http://ligo-cbc.github.io/pycbc/latest/html/

To download and install PyCBC follow the instructions at

• http://ligo-cbc.github.io/pycbc/latest/html/install.html

You can start up an interactive jupyter notebook with PyCBC using either of the links below.

If you use any code from PyCBC in a scientific publication, then we ask that it is cited in the following way:

These results were generated using the PyCBC software package
\cite{Canton:2014ena,Usman:2015kfa,pycbc-software}

For the citation pycbc-software, please use a bibtex entry and DOI for the appropriate release of the PyCBC software (or the latest available release). A bibtex key and DOI for each release is avaliable from Zenodo. A key for the latest release is available at:

Bibtex keys for the citations Canton:2014ena and Usman:2015kfa are

@article{Canton:2014ena,
      author         = "Dal Canton, Tito and others",
      title          = "{Implementing a search for aligned-spin neutron
                        star-black hole systems with advanced ground based
                        gravitational wave detectors}",
      journal        = "Phys. Rev.",
      volume         = "D90",
      year           = "2014",
      number         = "8",
      pages          = "082004",
      doi            = "10.1103/PhysRevD.90.082004",
      eprint         = "1405.6731",
      archivePrefix  = "arXiv",
      primaryClass   = "gr-qc",
      reportNumber   = "LIGO-P1400053",
      SLACcitation   = "%%CITATION = ARXIV:1405.6731;%%"
}

@article{Usman:2015kfa,
      author         = "Usman, Samantha A. and others",
      title          = "{The PyCBC search for gravitational waves from compact
                        binary coalescence}",
      journal        = "Class. Quant. Grav.",
      volume         = "33",
      year           = "2016",
      number         = "21",
      pages          = "215004",
      doi            = "10.1088/0264-9381/33/21/215004",
      eprint         = "1508.02357",
      archivePrefix  = "arXiv",
      primaryClass   = "gr-qc",
      reportNumber   = "LIGO-P1500086",
      SLACcitation   = "%%CITATION = ARXIV:1508.02357;%%"
}