bachelor_project

Description

This repository contains my Bachelor thesis BA_main.pdf and code that was used to obtain the results discussed in it.

It deals with Gravitationa-Wave events published by the LIGO-Virgo-Kagra collaboration in the third Gravitational-Wave catalog GWTC-3 (arXiv:2111.03606). More specifically, the topic are systematics in the posterior distributions of these events (to learn more about posteriors, see chapter 2 of the thesis and sources within). These posteriors can be downloaded from the corresponding Zenodo release, for example using download_data.py.

Just like the file names suggest, thesis_plots.py and thesis_tables.py are scripts reproducing the figures and tables from the thesis. All other files contain functions, constants etc. that are used therein.

For help with what the files do, look at the comments at the beginning of each file. Some of them are scripts that can be executed and also have a docstring, which can be printed e.g. using:

import download_data
print(download_data.__doc__)

Project Status

The thesis has already been submitted, so the time of writing new code is over. However, there is still work to do:

• functions.py: some functions have not been added yet
• thesis_plots.py: some plots for chapter are still missing
• thesis_tables.py: tables for chapter 5 are still missing
• in general: improving code and documentation

Citation

If you happen to use some of the code, please cite this repository.