gw-eccentricity 2.0.1
Defining eccentricity for gravitational wave astronomy.
Requires Python: >=3.8
Keywords: black-holes, gravitational-waves

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# About

**gw_eccentricity** provides methods to measure eccentricity and mean anomaly
from gravitational waveforms.

These methods are described in the following paper: <br/>
- [1] Md Arif Shaikh, Vijay Varma, Harald Pfeiffer, Antoni Ramos-Buades and
Maarten van de Meent, "Defining eccentricity for gravitational wave astronomy",
[Phys. Rev. D 108, 104007 (2023)](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.108.104007),
[arXiv:2302.11257](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.11257)
- [2] Md Arif Shaikh, Vijay Varma, Antoni Ramos-Buades, Harald P
  Pfeiffer, Michael Boyle, Lawrence E Kidder and Mark A Scheel,
  "Defining eccentricity for spin-precessing binaries",
  [Class. Quantum Grav. 42 195012
  (2025)](https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/ae085d),
  [arXiv:2507.08345](https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08345)

Please see [Credits](#credits) below for citing this work.
This package lives on [GitHub](https://github.com/vijayvarma392/gw_eccentricity), is compatible with
`python3`, and is tested every week. You can see the current build status of
the main branch at the top of this page.


# Installation

## PyPI
**gw_eccentricity** is available through [PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/gw_eccentricity/):

```shell
pip install gw_eccentricity
```

## Conda
**gw_eccentricity** can be installed using `conda` also:
```shell
conda install -c conda-forge gw_eccentricity
```

## From source

```shell
git clone git@github.com:vijayvarma392/gw_eccentricity.git
cd gw_eccentricity
pip install .
```

If you do not have root permissions, replace the last step with
`pip install --user .`

## Dependencies

All of these can be installed through pip or conda.
* [numpy](https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/user/install.html)
* [scipy](https://www.scipy.org/install.html)
* [h5py](http://docs.h5py.org/en/latest/build.html)
* [lalsuite](https://pypi.org/project/lalsuite)
* [sxs](https://github.com/sxs-collaboration/sxs)
* [scri](https://github.com/moble/scri)
* [polyrat](https://pypi.org/project/polyrat/)

# Usage
See example notebooks:
* [gw_eccentricity demo](https://github.com/vijayvarma392/gw_eccentricity/blob/main/examples/gw_eccentricity_demo.ipynb) for how to use the package, along with diagnostic plots.
* [Load waveforms demo](https://github.com/vijayvarma392/gw_eccentricity/blob/main/examples/load_waveform_demo.ipynb) for loading waveform data into a dictionary format suitable for gw_eccentricity, including for LAL, SXS, and LVCNR waveforms.
  - [TEOBResumS-Dali demo](https://github.com/vijayvarma392/gw_eccentricity/blob/main/examples/egw_from_TEOBResumS-DALI_demo.ipynb) for the same for `TEOBResumS-Dali`.
  - [SEOBNRv5EHM demo](https://github.com/vijayvarma392/gw_eccentricity/blob/main/examples/egw_from_SEOBNRv5EHM_demo.ipynb) for the same for `SEOBNRv5EHM`.

# Making contributions
See this
[README](https://github.com/vijayvarma392/gw_eccentricity/blob/main/README_developers.md)
for instructions on how to make contributions to this package.

Please report bugs by raising an issue on our
[GitHub](https://github.com/vijayvarma392/gw_eccentricity) repository.

# Credits
The main contributors to this code are [Md Arif Shaikh](https://md-arif-shaikh.github.io/), [Vijay
Varma](https://vijayvarma.com), and [Harald Pfeiffer](https://www.aei.mpg.de/person/54205/2784). You can find the full list of contributors
[here](https://github.com/vijayvarma392/gw_eccentricity/graphs/contributors).

If you find this package useful in your work, please cite reference
[1], [2] and this package. You can use the following bibtex keys:
```BibTeX
@article{Shaikh:2023ypz,
    author = "Shaikh, Md Arif and Varma, Vijay and Pfeiffer, Harald P. and Ramos-Buades, Antoni and van de Meent, Maarten",
    title = "{Defining eccentricity for gravitational wave astronomy}",
    eprint = "2302.11257",
    archivePrefix = "arXiv",
    primaryClass = "gr-qc",
    doi = "10.1103/PhysRevD.108.104007",
    journal = "Phys. Rev. D",
    volume = "108",
    number = "10",
    pages = "104007",
    year = "2023",
    Note = "{\href{https://pypi.org/project/gw_eccentricity}{pypi.org/project/gw\_eccentricity}}",
}

@article{Shaikh:2025tae,
    author = "Shaikh, Md Arif and Varma, Vijay and Ramos-Buades, Antoni and Pfeiffer, Harald P. and Boyle, Michael and Kidder, Lawrence E. and Scheel, Mark A.",
    title = "{Defining eccentricity for spin-precessing binaries}",
    eprint = "2507.08345",
    archivePrefix = "arXiv",
    primaryClass = "gr-qc",
    doi = "10.1088/1361-6382/ae085d",
    journal = "Class. Quant. Grav.",
    volume = "42",
    number = "19",
    pages = "195012",
    year = "2025",
	Note = "{\href{https://pypi.org/project/gw_eccentricity}{pypi.org/project/gw\_eccentricity}}",
}
```

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Image at the top shows an eccentric gravitational wave signal (SXS:BBH:2558) from [arXiv:2209.03390](https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.03390).