NRSur7dq2

This is a Python package for evaluating the NRSur7dq2 surrogate model of gravitational waves from numerical relativity simulations of binary black hole mergers. A paper describing the model can be found at https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.96.024058 or https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.07089

########## Installation instructions:

This package can be installed with python setup.py install or python setup.py install --user to install into a user directory.

########## Usage: In python, simply

import NRSur7dq2

then load the surrogate data, found at https://www.black-holes.org/surrogates/ with

sur = NRSur7dq2.NRSurrogate7dq2("NRSur7dq2.h5")

See the NRSur7dq2.NRSurrogate7dq2 docstring for evaluation instructions. A tutorial notebook can also be found at the above url.