Acknowledging/Citing Bilby

If you have used Bilby in your scientific work, please acknowledge us in your papers/proposals.

@article{bilby_paper,
    author = "Ashton, Gregory and others",
    title = "{BILBY: A user-friendly Bayesian inference library for gravitational-wave astronomy}",
    eprint = "1811.02042",
    archivePrefix = "arXiv",
    primaryClass = "astro-ph.IM",
    doi = "10.3847/1538-4365/ab06fc",
    journal = "Astrophys. J. Suppl.",
    volume = "241",
    number = "2",
    pages = "27",
    year = "2019"
}

Additionally, if you used bilby_pipe or parallel_bilby, please cite appropriate papers mentioned below”

@article{bilby_pipe_paper,
    author = "Romero-Shaw, I. M. and others",
    title = "{Bayesian inference for compact binary coalescences with bilby: validation and application to the first LIGO\textendash{}Virgo gravitational-wave transient catalogue}",
    eprint = "2006.00714",
    archivePrefix = "arXiv",
    primaryClass = "astro-ph.IM",
    doi = "10.1093/mnras/staa2850",
    journal = "Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc.",
    volume = "499",
    number = "3",
    pages = "3295--3319",
    year = "2020"
}

@article{pbilby_paper,
    author = "Smith, Rory J. E. and Ashton, Gregory and Vajpeyi, Avi and Talbot, Colm",
    title = "{Massively parallel Bayesian inference for transient gravitational-wave astronomy}",
    eprint = "1909.11873",
    archivePrefix = "arXiv",
    primaryClass = "gr-qc",
    reportNumber = "LIGO Document P1900255-v1",
    doi = "10.1093/mnras/staa2483",
    journal = "Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc.",
    volume = "498",
    number = "3",
    pages = "4492--4502",
    year = "2020"
}

If you use any of the accelerated likelihoods like ROQGravitationalWaveTransient, MBGravitationalWaveTransient, RelativeBinningGravitationalWaveTransient etc., please cite the following papers in addition to the above.

  • ROQGravitationalWaveTransient

 @article{roq_paper_1,
    author = {Smith, Rory and Field, Scott E. and Blackburn, Kent and Haster, Carl-Johan and P\"urrer, Michael and Raymond, Vivien and Schmidt, Patricia},
    title = "{Fast and accurate inference on gravitational waves from precessing compact binaries}",
    eprint = "1604.08253",
    archivePrefix = "arXiv",
    primaryClass = "gr-qc",
    reportNumber = "LIGO-DOCUMENT-NUMBER-P1600096, LIGO-P1600096",
    doi = "10.1103/PhysRevD.94.044031",
    journal = "Phys. Rev. D",
    volume = "94",
    number = "4",
    pages = "044031",
    year = "2016"
}

@article{roq_paper_2,
    author = "Morisaki, Soichiro and Smith, Rory and Tsukada, Leo and Sachdev, Surabhi and Stevenson, Simon and Talbot, Colm and Zimmerman, Aaron",
    title = "{Rapid localization and inference on compact binary coalescences with the Advanced LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA gravitational-wave detector network}",
    eprint = "2307.13380",
    archivePrefix = "arXiv",
    primaryClass = "gr-qc",
    doi = "10.1103/PhysRevD.108.123040",
    journal = "Phys. Rev. D",
    volume = "108",
    number = "12",
    pages = "123040",
    year = "2023"
}

  • MBGravitationalWaveTransient

@article{mb_paper,
    author = "Morisaki, Soichiro",
    title = "{Accelerating parameter estimation of gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence using adaptive frequency resolutions}",
    eprint = "2104.07813",
    archivePrefix = "arXiv",
    primaryClass = "gr-qc",
    doi = "10.1103/PhysRevD.104.044062",
    journal = "Phys. Rev. D",
    volume = "104",
    number = "4",
    pages = "044062",
    year = "2021"
}

  • RelativeBinningGravitationalWaveTransient

@article{relbin_bilby,
    author = "Krishna, Kruthi and Vijaykumar, Aditya and Ganguly, Apratim and Talbot, Colm and Biscoveanu, Sylvia and George, Richard N. and Williams, Natalie and Zimmerman, Aaron",
    title = "{Accelerated parameter estimation in Bilby with relative binning}",
    eprint = "2312.06009",
    archivePrefix = "arXiv",
    primaryClass = "gr-qc",
    month = "12",
    year = "2023"
}

@article{relbin_cornish,
    author = "Cornish, Neil J.",
    title = "{Fast Fisher Matrices and Lazy Likelihoods}",
    eprint = "1007.4820",
    archivePrefix = "arXiv",
    primaryClass = "gr-qc",
    month = "7",
    year = "2010"
}

@article{relbin_zackay,
    author = "Zackay, Barak and Dai, Liang and Venumadhav, Tejaswi",
    title = "{Relative Binning and Fast Likelihood Evaluation for Gravitational Wave Parameter Estimation}",
    eprint = "1806.08792",
    archivePrefix = "arXiv",
    primaryClass = "astro-ph.IM",
    month = "6",
    year = "2018"
}

If you use the bilby_mcmc sampler, please additionally cite the following paper

@article{bilby_mcmc_paper,
    author = "Ashton, Gregory and Talbot, Colm",
    title = "{B\,ilby-MCMC: an MCMC sampler for gravitational-wave inference}",
    eprint = "2106.08730",
    archivePrefix = "arXiv",
    primaryClass = "gr-qc",
    doi = "10.1093/mnras/stab2236",
    journal = "Mon. Not. Roy. Astron. Soc.",
    volume = "507",
    number = "2",
    pages = "2037--2051",
    year = "2021"
}

Additionally, bilby builds on a number of open-source packages. If you make use of this functionality in your publications, we recommend you cite them as requested in their associated documentation.

Samplers * cpnest * dnest4 * dynesty * emcee * kombine * nestle * nessai * PyMC3 * pymultinest * pypolychord * ptemcee * ptmcmcsampler * ultranest * zeus

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