Welcome to PESummary’s gw package

PESummary’s gw specific package contains GW functionality, including converting posterior distributions, deriving event classifications and GW specific plots.

Unified input/output

• The write function
• The read function

Parameter definitions

• The standard pesummary names

Manipulating posterior samples

• Array class
• SamplesDict class
• MCMCSamplesDict class
• The Conversion module
• Conversions and HTCondor

Manipulating PDFs

• Analytic PDFs
• ProbabilityDict class
• ProbabilityDict2D class

Manipulating PSD and Calibration data

• PSD class
• Calibration class

Manipulating frame files

• Strain Data in PESummary

The pesummary metafile

• Extract information from a pesummary file
  • Extracting skymap statistics
  • Extracting strain data
  • Loading the calibration envelope for a specific run
  • Loading the psd for a specific run
  • Converting file format
  • Loading all data for a specific run without PESummary

Fetching data

• Fetching data
  • Public data
  • Authenticated data

Waveforms

• Generating waveforms

Plotting

• Seaborn extension
• Bounded KDEs
• Violin plots
• Corner plots
• Comparing posterior samples from different groups
• Plotting from a meta file
• Making a scatter plot for a population of events
• Remaking plots that appear in GWTC1
• Interacting with ligo.skymap
• Plotting gravitational wave strain data

Releasing samples

• Making a jupyter notebook for release

Executables

PESummary boasts several executables to make it even easier to use. For a description of each executable see this summary table.

• summaryclassification
• summaryclean
• summarycombine
• summarycombine_posteriors
• summarycompare
• summarydetchar
• summaryextract
• summarygracedb
• summarymodify
• summarypages
• summarypageslw
• summarypipe
• summarypublication
• summaryrecreate
• summaryreview
• summarysplit
• summarytgr
• summaryversion

The webpages

As the summarypages executable is the main executable provided by pesummary, we will show and explain each of the output pages. We will use the pages that were produced from Listing 5 in the pesummary paper (GW190412 webpages).

• The home page
• The publication page
• The logging page
• The version page
• The downloads page
• The about page
• The analysis home page
• The corner page
• The 1d histogram pages
• The Interactive page
• The classification page
• The comparison home page
• The comparison 1d histogram pages
• The Comparison Interactive page
• Watermarks