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minke 2.0.0 alpha 1
I’ve started work on improving the minke codebase to allow it to do things like make compact binary coalescence waveforms and injections, and create framefiles using modern techniques.
asimov 0.5.7
This is a bug-fix release, and doesn’t introduce any new features. Breaking changes
asimov 0.5.6
I’m pleased to announce the release of the latest version of asimov.
Running asimov on a single machine
If you’re looking to try out asimov on your own laptop or workstation you’ll quickly run into a bit of a limitation: asimov, and the codes it works with, are designed to run on a large computing cluster. However, we can get around this by installing a lightweight version of the software used on clusters on your own machine before we try to run asimov.
asimov 0.4.0
I’m very pleased to announce that the first release of the 0.4 development and review cycle for asimov!
Mimicking mergers and hyperbolic VItamins
A couple of months ago a student who I’ve been working with for the last year or so put out a new first author paper, which was an exciting moment. This is the first time I’ve had a student publish, so I’m enjoying a little buzz of excitement from that, but Weichangfeng should enjoy all the glory of getting the project finished.
Making Gravitational Waves
This post is part of a series of quick astrophysics explainers I’m trying to put together, partly so that I can link to something when I talk about some of these things elsewhere rather than frequently repeating myself! Hopefully it shouldn’t take more than a few minutes to read, and you’ll come away knowing a little more about gravitational waves.
GWTC-2: introducing 39 new gravitational waves
I remember as a child religiously reading the Argos catalogue; probably sometimes looking for Christmas presents, but often just looking at how many things you could possibly buy from one shop. As I got older I started to wonder how on earth they managed to put such a large catalogue together. Five years after the first detection of a gravitational wave signal, I have a little insight into just how hard the latter process is, and a little more appreciation for how much the Universe has to offer.
Asimov v0.3.0 now available!
The latest release of asimov is now available from our gitlab server, as well as being available on pypi.
Python packaging, configuration files, and elisp adventures
Here is another technical note, this time with some code which I keep rewritting in different projects, so I decided to put it all in one place.
Making injections with Bilby
The last couple of days I’ve spent a fair amount of time trying organising a number of diversity-related things for our upcoming collaboration meeting, and doing more admin than I can pretend to have enjoyed, so today’s note’s going to be a fairly short one, covering some work I did while helping a student using Bilby, the LSC’s new inference library (named, pleasingly, after an animal).
Twinkle, twinkle, big explosion
Today marks a major moment in the development of a project I’ve been working on for some time: me and my co-authors have completed a paper on inferring the opening angles of gamma ray bursts by observing binary neutron star mergers and gamma ray bursts. What does that mean? Well, I guess the point of this post is to explain just that. It should be said, while you can download the paper now, it’s still a pre-print: that means it hasn’t been peer-reviewed yet, so there’s a chance it may contain some mistakes which we’ve not picked up on. So I guess you might argue it’s probably not quite completed.