Software to rapidly compute inspirals trajectories and their associated waveforms for eccentric small mass-ratio inspirals into a Schwarzschild black hole. The computed inspirals and waveform include local self-force effects.
Details of the near-identity transformation method used can be found in: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.05281
The NIT inspiral code depends upon:
- The GNU Scientific Library (https://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/)
- FFTW (http://www.fftw.org/)
- libconfig (https://hyperrealm.github.io/libconfig/)
- Scons (http://scons.org/)
Type scons in the main directory to compile.
Running ./NIT_inspiral without any arguments will give a list of the possible arguments. The various options and how to use the code are given below.
Before computing a NIT inspiral you must first compute the the averaged forcing functions. This is performed in two steps:
- ./NIT_inspiral -d (to decompose the self-force into Fourier modes)
- ./NIT_inspiral -c (to compute the averaged forcing functions from the Fourier coefficients)
A NIT inspiral can now be computed with
./NIT_inspiral -n p0 e0 q
where (p0, e0) are the initial semi-latus rectum and orbital eccentricity and q is the (small) mass ratio. The inspiral is computed from the initial parameters until the onset of plunge near the separatrix. The NIT inspiral will be computed in milliseconds.
A Full self-forced inspiral can be computed with
./NIT_inspiral -f p0 e0 q
This inspiral will take seconds to hours to compute depending on the value of q.
To compute a waveform one must first compute the inspiral using the commands above. The parameters for the waveform (sampling rate etc) are specified in the configuration file found in config/parameters.cfg. To compute the waveform associated with a NIT inspiral use
./NIT_inspiral -w p0 e0 q -n
Similarly to compute the waveform associated with a full self-forced inspiral use:
./NIT_inspiral -w p0 e0 q -f
The code is licensed under the GPLv3 (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html)