Intermediate-mass black hole binary parameter estimation with next-generation ground-based detector networks

Reading the data

Each of the alldetectors and CE40CE20ET .zip file contains a folder with .pickle files. Each of these .pickle files corresponds to a point on the respective grid. The files contain dictionaries structured as follows:

In the skyareas and m1m2grid folders, each dictionary stores the source-frame component masses, redshift, angular parameters, network SNR, network covariance matrix and 90% sky area.

In the Mzgrid folders, each dictionary stores source-frame total mass, redshift, angular parameters, individual SNR and Fisher matrix for each detector in the network.

The grids, detector network and parameters used to perform the Fisher calculations are described in the companion paper. The converted_errors folder contains network SNR, 1-sigma errors on source-frame masses, redshift, 90% sky areas for all the networks considered in the companion paper. These quantities are all angle-averaged.

The full_pe .zip files cointain data comparing our Fisher results with full Bayesian PE runs for a few selected cases, as well as Jupyter notebooks to read those results (see Appendix B of the companion paper).