Examples

This part of the documentation covers a suite of examples intended to demonstrate the various applications of PyFstat in searching for continuous gravitational waves (CWs), using different grid- and MCMC-based methods, as well as some of the additional helper utilities included in the package.

The examples are simple stand-alone python scripts that can be run after installing the PyFstat package and downloading the example itself from these pages (or from github). Alternatively, they can be run interactively through Binder:

Note though that the examples have currently not yet been optimized the interactive notebook experience, meaning for example that you’ll need to use the jupyter file browser to find the plots which are saved to files instead of being directly displayed.

• Grid searches for isolated CW
• MCMC searches for isolated CW signals
• Comparison between MCMC and Grid searches
• Multi-stage MCMC follow up
• Binary-modulated CW searches
• Glitch robust CW searches
• Transient CW searches
• Other examples