Collaboration diagram for Inject:
This package provides routines to simulate gravitational waves and their effect on a detector.
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Modules |
| | SkyCoordinates |
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- Creighton, T.Module providing routines to convert among various sky coordinate systems. Most of these routines are discussed in Sec.5.1 of Lang_K1999; we reproduce here some of the essential elements of this discussion.
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| | GenerateInspRing |
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- S.FairhurstModule for pasting a (realistic) ringdown on the end of an inspiral
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| | Pulsar-signal generation |
| | Pulsar signal-generation routines for hardware- and software-injections.
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| | InspiralInjectionParams |
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- D.Module for generating randomly distributed inspiral parameters
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| | NRWaveInject |
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- S.Fairhurst, B.Module for generating h(t) from Numrel waveforms
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Detailed Description
This package provides routines to simulate gravitational waves and their effect on a detector.
Conceptually, this can be divided into three stages:
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Generating the gravitational waveform as produced by the source. The routines currently available are:
- GeneratePPNInspiral.h: Provides routines to generate parametrized post-Newtonian inspiral waveforms up to 5/2 order.
- GenerateTaylorCW.h: Provides a routine to generate continuous quasiperiodic waveforms with Taylor-parametrized frequency evolution.
- GenerateSpinOrbitCW.h: Provides a routine to generate Taylor-parameterized waveforms, as above, with additional binary orbit Doppler modulations.
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Simulating a detector's theoretical response to an incoming gravitational wave. The routines currently available are:
- SimulateCoherentGW.h: routines to simulate the detector response to a coherent wave with slowly-varying frequency and amplitude.
- SimulateSB.h: Provides routines to simulate the response of a pair of detectors to a stochastic gravitational-wave background.
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Injecting the detector's theoretical response with time into a (noisy) datastream. This is done by a single set of generic routines in inject.h.
As the package evolves, new source types may be added under item 1, and other (perhaps more generic) ways of simulating the detector response may be added under item 2. Item 3, however, is unlikely to need much updating.
In addition to these basic divisions, the package may include routines that perform other useful tasks in signal injection or source simulation, such as combining signal generation, detector simulation, and injection into a single function call, or modelling astrophysical distributions of sources.
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