Additional Tools

The ligo.skymap package includes a number of advanced tools for working with GW probability sky maps.

• Publication-quality astronomical mapmaking built on Astropy (ligo.skymap.plot.allsky)

  

• Functions for manipulating distance posteriors (ligo.skymap.distance)

• Probabilistic airmass plots (ligo-skymap-plot-airmass)

  

• The rapid localization code BAYESTAR, which is used to produce the initial sky maps for CBC events but can also be used to created simulated localizations.

• The postprocessing tool that creates updated sky maps from MCMC samples (ligo-skymap-from-samples)