Library Examples and Interactive Tutorials

We have interactive tutorials and examples of using the pycbc. Please give them a try!.

In addition we have some examples below.

• Catalog of Observed Gravitational-wave Mergers
  • Which mergers do we have information about?
  • Plotting some key statistics from the catalog
  • Accessing data around each event
• Query times of valid data, hardware injections, and more.
  • Determine the times an instrument has valid data
  • Finding times of hardware injections
  • What flags can I query?
• Reading Gravitational-wave Frames
  • Introduction
  • Querying a LDR server
  • Reading a frame file
  • Writing a frame file
  • Method documentation
• Performing FFTs in PyCBC
  • Introduction
  • Using the function based API
  • Using the class-based API
  • Choosing a specific backend
  • Method documentation
• Signal Processing with GW150914
  • Plotting the whitened strain
  • Calculate the signal-to-noise
  • Listen to GW150914 in Hanford
• Gravitational-wave Detectors
  • Detector Locations
  • Light travel time between detectors
  • Time source gravitational-wave passes through detector
  • Antenna Patterns and Projecting a Signal into the Detector Frame
  • Adding a custom detector / overriding existing ones
• Handling PSDs
  • Reading / Saving a PSD from a file
  • Generating an Analytic PSD from lalsimulation
  • Estimating the PSD of a time series
• Generating Noise
  • Generating time domain Gaussian noise
• Waveforms
  • What waveforms can I generate?
  • Plotting Time Domain Waveforms
  • Generating one waveform in multiple detectors
  • Selecting which modes to include
  • Calculating the match between waveforms
  • Plotting a TD and FD waveform together in the TD
  • Plotting GW phase and amplitude of TD waveform
  • Plotting frequency evolution of TD waveform
  • Adding a custom waveform
• Filtering
  • Applying highpass / lowpass filters
  • Applying an FIR filter
  • Matched Filter SNR
  • Chisq time series
• Using PyCBC Distributions from PyCBC Inference
  • Generating samples in a Python script by using the .ini file
  • Making Mass Distributions in M1 and M2
  • Generating mchirp and q from uniform mass1 and mass2
  • Sky Location Distribution as Spin Distribution Example