Our Science...

Our group's principal focus is the exploitation of gravitational wave observations as a tool of astronomical discovery. Our research spans the all that is required to that end: understanding of gravitational wave detectors and their capabilities; observations with those detectors and analysis of detector data; and interpretation of those observations, either alone or in concert with other observational modalities, to broaden and deepen our understanding of the cosmos and the physical laws that undergird it.

Visualizations, Software Tools and Applications...

In the course of our work we develop software tools and visualizations whose value extends beyond our immediate needs. These research products we document and make available for your use in your own research.

Unless otherwise noted our software is distributed under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0. If you find any of these tools useful in your own work we would love to hear about it (and appreciate an acknowledgment)! Details on how to contact us and suggestions for acknowledgment text are included in the documentation of each toolkit.

• Visualizations:  A growing collection of visualizations produced by our group to illustrate or elucidate gravitational wave phenomena.
• GCNBrowser:  GCNBrowser is a universal Adobe Air application that allows the user to graphically browse the real-time up-to-date gamma-ray burst coordinate network database maintained by the our research group.
• GWINC: The Gravitational Wave Interferometer Noise Calculator (GWINC) was developed in 1997 by L. S. Finn of the GWAstro Group to provide a performance evaluation tool for advanced gravitational wave interferometer design.
• MEALPix: MEALPix is a Matlab (and Octave compatible) implementation of the HEALPix software packages, originally developed by ESO and NASA.
• Pulsar Timing Array Browser: A prototype graphical browser for interacting with NANOGrav's pulsar timing array database.
  
• PTASM: The Pulsar Timing Array Sensitivity Map (PTASM) software enables you to evaluate the relative sensitivity of a pulsar timing array, real or hypothetical, to a gravitational wave source as a function of its location on the sky.