SoftwareX (Jun 2021)
GstLAL: A software framework for gravitational wave discovery
- Kipp Cannon,
- Sarah Caudill,
- Chiwai Chan,
- Bryce Cousins,
- Jolien D.E. Creighton,
- Becca Ewing,
- Heather Fong,
- Patrick Godwin,
- Chad Hanna,
- Shaun Hooper,
- Rachael Huxford,
- Ryan Magee,
- Duncan Meacher,
- Cody Messick,
- Soichiro Morisaki,
- Debnandini Mukherjee,
- Hiroaki Ohta,
- Alexander Pace,
- Stephen Privitera,
- Iris de Ruiter,
- Surabhi Sachdev,
- Leo Singer,
- Divya Singh,
- Ron Tapia,
- Leo Tsukada,
- Daichi Tsuna,
- Takuya Tsutsui,
- Koh Ueno,
- Aaron Viets,
- Leslie Wade,
- Madeline Wade
Affiliations
- Kipp Cannon
- RESCEU, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
- Sarah Caudill
- Nikhef, Science Park, 1098 XG Amsterdam, Netherlands; Institute for Gravitational and Subatomic Physics (GRASP), Department of Physics, Utrecht University, Princetonplein, 13584 Utrecht, Netherlands
- Chiwai Chan
- RESCEU, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
- Bryce Cousins
- Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA; Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
- Jolien D.E. Creighton
- Leonard E. Parker Center for Gravitation, Cosmology, and Astrophysics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA
- Becca Ewing
- Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA; Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
- Heather Fong
- RESCEU, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan; Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
- Patrick Godwin
- Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA; Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
- Chad Hanna
- Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA; Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA; Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA; Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
- Shaun Hooper
- University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia
- Rachael Huxford
- Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA; Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
- Ryan Magee
- LIGO Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, MS 100-36, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA; Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA; Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA; Corresponding author at: LIGO Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, MS 100-36, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
- Duncan Meacher
- Leonard E. Parker Center for Gravitation, Cosmology, and Astrophysics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA
- Cody Messick
- The Center for Gravitational Physics, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, USA
- Soichiro Morisaki
- Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8582, Japan
- Debnandini Mukherjee
- Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA; Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
- Hiroaki Ohta
- RESCEU, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
- Alexander Pace
- Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA; Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
- Stephen Privitera
- Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
- Iris de Ruiter
- Astronomical Institute, Anton Pannekoek, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, Netherlands; Nikhef, Science Park, 1098 XG Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Surabhi Sachdev
- Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA; Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA; LIGO Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, MS 100-36, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
- Leo Singer
- Astroparticle Physics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Mail Code 661, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
- Divya Singh
- Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA; Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
- Ron Tapia
- Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA; Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
- Leo Tsukada
- RESCEU, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan; Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
- Daichi Tsuna
- RESCEU, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan; Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
- Takuya Tsutsui
- RESCEU, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
- Koh Ueno
- RESCEU, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
- Aaron Viets
- Leonard E. Parker Center for Gravitation, Cosmology, and Astrophysics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA
- Leslie Wade
- Department of Physics, Hayes Hall, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH 43022, USA
- Madeline Wade
- Department of Physics, Hayes Hall, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH 43022, USA
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 14
p. 100680
Abstract
The GstLAL library, derived from Gstreamer and the LIGO Algorithm Library, supports a stream-based approach to gravitational-wave data processing. Although GstLAL was primarily designed to search for gravitational-wave signatures of merging black holes and neutron stars, it has also contributed to other gravitational-wave searches, data calibration, and detector-characterization efforts. GstLAL has played an integral role in all of the LIGO-Virgo collaboration detections, and its low-latency configuration has enabled rapid electromagnetic follow-up for dozens of compact binary candidates.
