darksirens: easy and realistic GW mock catalogues¶
The darksirens
package quickly generates realistic mock catalogues of
luminosity distances, uncertainties and signal-to-noise ratios
that would be obtained from the measurements of gravitational waves from
binary black hole mergers made by the Einstein Telescope,
a proposed third-generation gravitational wave observatory.
One of the main features of darksirens
is its ability to mock the observation of GWs from
primordial black hole mergers as well as astrophysical black hole mergers. This allows for the
assessment of the Einstein Telescope’s ability to detect these objects and measure their potential
contribution to the dark matter density, as reported in https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.02639.
The package is easily extendible to include other observatories, different cosmologies (through its interface with CAMB
),
different star formation and black hole merger rates, and many other possibilities.
Installation¶
Clone the git repository: https://gitlab.com/matmartinelli/darksirens.
Usage¶
See the Quick start guide, or go straight to the example Jupyter notebook for more details.
Credit¶
If you use the darksirens
package in your work, please cite this paper:
@article{darksirens,
author = "Martinelli M. and others",
title = "{Dancing in the dark: detecting a population
of distant primordial black holes}",
eprint = "2205.02639",
archivePrefix = "arXiv",
primaryClass = "astro-ph.CO",
year = "2022"
}
Feedback¶
For any comments, questions or contributions, contact the authors via matteo.martinelli@inaf.it.
License¶
The darksirens
package is made freely available under the MIT license.