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
Documentation is automatically built nightly and available from
To download and install PyCBC follow the instructions at
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 generating 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;%%"
}
