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gwnrtools / nr-catalog-tools

A unified interface to various catalogs of Numerical Relativity simulations of compact binary mergers.
https://github.com/gwnrtools/nr-catalog-tools
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Translate inclination/ref_phase to LAL frame when calculating polarizations #6

Closed prayush closed 1 year ago

prayush commented 1 year ago

At the moment the inclination and coa_phase angles used to construct the plus and cross polarizations by this member method of WaveformModes, are being interpreted in whatever frame the NR waveform modes data is available. In order to ensure uniformity of frames across NR catalogs, we should translate to the LAL frame that is documented here and currently used in lalsimulation. We choose this frame because lalsuite has the largest collection of GW waveform models from compact binary coalescences, and so NR waveform data is most likely to be used in conjunction with tools from lalsuite.

prayush commented 1 year ago

Note: this is being done in #3

prayush commented 1 year ago

Marking as closed as #3 is merged