Data Release: "A parameter-free tour of the binary black hole population"

This dataset contains the results presented in "A parameter-free tour of the binary black hole population" (arXiv:2302.07289).

The code used to generate this data can be found in the repository https://github.com/tcallister/autoregressive-bbh-inference/. This repository includes jupyter notebooks that can be used to open, explore, and plot the files contained in this data set. Additional information about reproducing and/or using this dataset can be found in our associated documentation.

Further notes:

The files sampleDict_FAR_1_in_1_yr.pickle and injectionDict_FAR_1_in_1.pickle, used as inputs to our analyses, are created via code in the repository https://github.com/tcallister/get-lvk-data (see also https://zenodo.org/record/6505409).

The files posteriors_gaussian_spin_samples_FAR_1_in_1.json and o1o2o3_mass_c_iid_mag_iid_tilt_powerlaw_redshift_result.json, used for figure generation, were published by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, and KAGRA Collaboration in support of the paper "The population of merging compact binaries inferred using gravitational waves through GWTC-3" (see https://zenodo.org/record/5655785).

New in this version: This version (Version 3) contains the the newest results generated in the first round of journal referee review and reflected in v2 of the arXiv listing. Includes re-run of all analyses with updated priors, and new results from the injection study discussed in Appendix C.