Welcome to gwemlightcurves’s documentation!

Installing gwemlightcurves

The easiest method to install gwemlightcurves is using pip directly from the GitHub repository:

$ pip install git+https://github.com/mcoughlin/gwemlightcurves

Table of Contents

• Simulating a Kilonova Lightcurve
  • Introduction
    • Reading and using KNTable
    • Calculating Compactness
    • Calculating Baryonic Mass
    • Calculating Ejecta Mass and Velocity of Ejecta
    • Generating Light Curves
• Lightcurves
  • Introduction
    • Brian Metzger
    • Wollaeger
    • Tim Dietrich and Maximiliano Ujevic
• Equation of State
  • Introduction
    • Mass-Radius Curves
    • Maximum NS Mass
    • EOS From Polytropes
    • Direct Comparison

How to run gwemlightcurves

The main product of this package is the command-line executable run_parameterized_models.py and run_parameterized_models_event.py

To run an analysis:

$ run_parameterized_models_event.py --posterior_samples something --name something

For a full list of command-line argument and options, run

$ run_parameterized_models_event.py --help

For more details see Running run_parameterized_models_event.py on the command line.

Package documentation

Please consult these pages for more details on using gwemlightcurves:

• Running run_parameterized_models_event.py on the command line

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page