CHANGELOG.md

All notable changes will be documented in this file

[2.1.2] 2023-07-17

Version 2.1.2 release of Bilby

This is a bugfix release. Note that one of the changes will have a significant impact on scripts that rely on a seed for random data generation. Where users have previously used np.random.seed they should now call bilby.core.utils.random.seed.

Changes

• Fix issues related to random number generation with multiprocessing (!1273 (merged))
• Enable cosmological priors to be written/read in our plain text format (!1258 (merged))
• Allow posterior reweighting to be performed when changing the likelihood and the prior (!1260 (merged))

[2.1.1] 2023-04-28

Version 2.1.1 release of Bilby

Bugfix release

Changes

• Fix the matched filter SNR phase for the multiband likelihood (!1253 (merged))
• Bugfix for Fisher matrix proposals in bilby_mcmc (!1251 (merged))
• Make the changes to the spline calibration backward compatible, 2.0.2 resume files can't be read with 2.1.0 (!1250 (merged))

[2.1.0] 2023-04-12

Version 2.1.0 release of Bilby

Minor feature improvements and bug fixes

Additions

• Additional parameterizations for equation-of-state inference (!1083 (merged), !1240 (merged))
• Add Fisher matrix posterior estimator (!1242 (merged))

Changes

• Improvements to the bilby-mcmc sampler including a Fisher Information Matrix proposal (!1242 (merged))
• Optimize spline interpolation of calibration uncertainties (!1241 (merged))
• Update LIGO India coordinates record to public DCC (!1246 (merged))
• Make logger disabling work in redundancy test (!1245 (merged))
• Make sure nested samples are data frame (!1244 (merged))
• Minor improvements to the result methods including moving to top level imports (!1243 (merged))
• Fix a bug in the slabspike prior (!1235 (merged))
• Reduce verbosity when setting strain data (!1233 (merged))
• Fix issue with cached results class (!1223 (merged))

Deprecated

• Reading/writing ROQ weights to json (!1232 (merged))

[2.0.2] 2023-03-21

Version 2.0.2 release of Bilby

This is a bugfix release after the last major update.

Changes

• Fix to bilby-MCMC implementation of prior boundary (!1237 (merged))
• Fix to time calibration (!1234 (merged))
• Fix nessai sampling time (!1236 (merged))

[2.0.1] 2023-03-13

Version 2.0.1 release of Bilby

This is a bugfix release after the last major update.

Users may notice changes in inferred binary neutron star masses after updating to match lalsuite.

Changes

• Make sure quantities that need to be conserved between dynesty iterations are class-level attributes (!1225 (merged)).
• Fix massive memory usage in post-processing calculation of SNRs (!1227 (merged)).
• Update value for the solar mass (!1229 (merged)).
• Make scikit-learn an explicit dependence of bilby[GW] (!1230 (merged)).

[2.0.0] 2023-02-29

Version 2.0.0 release of Bilby

This major version release has a significant change to the behaviour of the dynesty wrapper.

There are also a number of bugfixes and some new features in sampling and GW utilities.

Added

• Add marginalized time reconstruction for the ROQ likelihood (!1196 (merged))
• Generate the dynesty posterior using rejection sampling by default (!1203 (merged))
• Add optimization for mass ratio prior peaking at equal masses (!1204 (merged))
• Add option to sample over a number of precomputed calibration curves (!1215 (merged))

Changes

• Optimize weight calculation for MultiBandGravitationalWaveTransient (!1171 (merged))
• Add compatibility with pymc 5 (!1191 (merged))
• A bug fix of the stored prior when using a marginalized likelihood (!1193 (merged))
• Various bug fixes to improve the reliability of the RelativeBinningGravitationalWaveTransient (!1198 (merged), !1211 (merged))
• A hack fix for samplers that are not compatible with numpy>1.23 (!1194 (merged))
• Updates to some reference noise curves (!1206 (merged), !1207 (merged))
• Fix the broken time+calibration marginalization (!1201 (merged))
• Fix a bug when reading GW frame files (!1202 (merged))
• Fix the normalization of the whitened strain attribute of Interferometer (!1205 (merged))
• Optimize ROQ waveform and calibration calls (!1216 (merged))
• Add different proposal distribution and MCMC length for dynesty (!1187 (merged), !1222 (merged))

[1.4.1] 2022-12-07

Version 1.4.1 release of Bilby

This is a bugfix release to address some minor issues identified after v1.4.0.

Changes

• Documentation updates (!1181 (merged), !1183 (merged))
• Fix some of the examples in the repository (!1182 (merged))
• Make sure conversion to symmetric mass ratio always returns a valid value (!1184 (merged))
• Provide a default nlive for dynamic dynesty (!1185 (merged))
• Enable the relative binning likelihood to be initialized with ra/dec when sampling in a different sky parameterization (!1186 (merged))
• Make sure that all dumping pickle files is done safely (!1189 (merged))
• Make error catching for dynesty checkpointing more robust (!1190 (merged))

[1.4.0] 2022-11-18

Version 1.4.0 release of Bilby

The main changes in this release are support for more recent versions of dynesty (!1138 (merged)) and nessai (!1161 (merged)) and adding the RelativeBinningGravitationalWaveTransientLikelihood (!1105 (merged)) (see arXiv:1806.08792) for details.

Added

• Per-detector likelihood calculations (!1149 (merged))
• bilby.gw.likelihood.relative.RelativeBinningGravitationalWaveTransient (!1105 (merged))

Changes

• Reset the timer for PyMultiNest when overwriting an existing checkpoint directory (!1163 (merged))
• Cache the computed the noise log likelihood for the GravitationalWaveTransient (!1179 (merged))
• Set the reference chirp mass for the multi banded likelihood from the prior when not specified (!1169 (merged))
• Bugfix in the name of the saved ASD file in Interferometer.save_data (!1176 (merged))
• Modify the window length for stationarity tests for ptemcee (!1146 (merged))
• Explicit support for nessai>=0.7.0 (!1161 (merged))
• Allow prior arguments read from a string to be functions (!1144 (merged))
• Support dynesty>=1.1.0 (!1138 (merged))

[1.3.0] 2022-10-23

Version 1.3.0 release of Bilby

This release has a major change to a sampler interface, pymc3 is no longer supported, users should switch to pymc>=4. This release also adds a new top-level dependency, bilby-cython.

This release also contains various documentation improvements.

Added

• Improved logging of likelihood information when starting sampling (!1148 (merged))
• Switch some geometric calculations to use optimized bilby-cython package (!1053 (merged))
• Directly specify the starting point for bilby_mcmc (!1155 (merged))
• Allow a signal to be specified to only be present in a specific Interferometer (!1164 (merged))
• Store time domain model function in CBCResult metadata (!1165 (merged))

Changes

• Switch from pymc3 to pymc (!1117 (merged))
• Relax equality check for distance marginalization lookup to allow cross-platform use (!1150 (merged))
• Fix to deal with non-checkpointing bilby_mcmc analyses (!1151 (merged))
• Allow result objects with different analysis configurations to be combined (!1153 (merged))
• Improve the storing of environment information (!166 (merged))
• Fix issue when specifying distance and redshfit independently (!1154 (merged))
• Fix a bug in the storage of likelihood/prior samples for bilby_mcmc (!1156 (merged))

[1.2.1] 2022-09-05

Version 1.2.1 release of Bilby

This release contains a few bug fixes following 1.2.0.

Changes

• Improve how sampling seed is handled across samplers (!1134 (merged))
• Make sure labels are included when evidences are in corner plot legend (!1135 (merged))
• Remove calls to getargspec (!1136 (merged))
• Make sure parameter reconstruction cache is not mangled when reading (!1126 (merged))
• Enable the constant uncertainty calibration spline to have a specifiable boundary condition (!1137 (merged))
• Fix a bug in checkpointing for bilby_mcmc (!1141 (merged))
• Fix the LALCBCWaveformGenerator (!1140 (merged))
• Switch to automatic versioning with setuptools_scm (!1125 (merged))
• Improve the stability of the multivariate normal prior (!1142 (merged))
• Extend mass conversions to include source-frame parameters (!1131 (merged))
• Fix prior ranges for GW150914 example (!1129 (merged))

[1.2.0] 2022-08-15

Version 1.2.0 release of Bilby

This is the first release that drops support for Python<3.8.

This release involves major refactoring, especially of the sampler implementations.

Additionally, there are a range of improvements to how information is passed with multiprocessing.

Added

• Time marginalized ROQ likelihood (!1040 (merged))
• Multiple and multi-banded ROQ likelihood (!1093 (merged))
• Gaussian process likelihoods (!1086 (merged))
• CBCWaveformGenerator added with CBC specific defaults (!1080 (merged))

Changes

• Fixes and improvements to multi-processing (!1084 (merged), !1043 (merged), !1096 (merged))
• Major refactoring of sampler implementations (!1043 (merged))
• Fixes for reading/writing priors (!1103 (merged), !1127 (merged), !1128 (merged))
• Fixes/updates to exmample scripts (!1050 (merged), !1031 (merged), !1076 (merged), !1081 (merged), !1074 (merged))
• Fixes to calibration correction in GW likelihoods (!1114 (merged), !1120 (merged), !1119 (merged))

Deprecated/removed

• Require Python>=3.8
• Require astropy>=5
• bilby.core.utils.conversion.gps_time_to_gmst
• bilby.core.utils.spherical_to_cartesian
• bilby.core.utils.progress
• Deepdish IO for Result, Interferometer, and InterferometerList

[1.1.5] 2022-01-14

Version 1.1.5 release of Bilby

Added

• Option to enforce that a GW signal fits into the segment duration (!1041 (merged))
• Remove the save .dat samples file with dynesty (!1028 (merged))
• Catch corrupted json result result files being passed (!1034 (merged))

Changes

• Fixes to conversion function for nessai and cpnest (!1055 (merged))
• Workaround for astropy v5 (!1054 (merged))
• Various fixes to testing system (!1038 (merged), !1044 (merged), !1045 (merged), !1048 (merged))
• Updated defaults for nessai (!1042 (merged))
• Small bug fixes (!1032 (merged), !1036 (merged), !1039 (merged), !1046 (merged), !1052 (merged))
• Bug fix in the definition of some standard interferometers (!1037 (merged))
• Improvements to the multi-banded GWT likelihood (!1026 (merged))
• Improve meta data comparison (!1035 (merged))

[1.1.4] 2021-10-08

Version 1.1.4 release of bilby

Added

• Version of dynesty pinned to less than v1.1 to anticipate breaking changes (!1020 (merged))
• Pool to computation of SNR (!1013 (merged))
• Ability to load results produced with custom priors (!1010 (merged))
• The nestcheck test (!1005 (merged))
• Bilby-mcmc guide to docs (!1001 (merged))
• Codespell pre-commit (!996 (merged))
• MBGravitationalWaveTransient (!972 (merged))
• Zeus MCMC sampler support (!962 (merged))
• Option to use print rather than tqdm (!937 (merged))

Changes

• Updates citation guide (!1030 (merged))
• Minor bug fixes (!1029 (merged), !1025 (merged), !1022 (merged), !1016 (merged), !1018 (merged), !1014 (merged), !1007 (merged), !1004 (merged))
• Typo fix in eart light crossing (!1003 (merged))
• Fix zero spin conversion (!1002 (merged))

[1.1.3] 2021-07-02

Version 1.1.3 release of bilby

Added

• Added Categorical prior (!982 (merged))(!990 (merged))
• Added a built-in mcmc sampler (bilby_mcmc) (!905 (merged))(!985 (merged))
• Added run statistics to the dynesty meta data (!969 (merged))
• Added cdf method to PriorDict classes (!943 (merged))

Changes

• Removed the autoburnin causing kombine to fail the CI tests (!988 (merged))
• Sped up the spline interpolation in ROQ (!971 (merged))
• Replaced bessel interpolant to scipy function (!976 (merged))
• Improved checkpoint stats plot (!977 (merged))
• Fixed a typo in the sampler documentation (!986 (merged))
• Fixed issue that causes ConditionalDeltaFunction posterior samples not to be saved correctly (!973 (merged))
• Solved an issue where injected SNRs were logged incorrectly (!980 (merged))
• Made Python 3.6+ a specific requirement (!978 (merged))
• Fixed the calibration and time marginalized likelihood (!978 (merged))
• Removed a possible error in the distance marginalization (!960 (merged))
• Fixed an issue where check_draw did not catch np.nan values (!965 (merged))
• Removed a superfluous line in the docs configuration file (!963 (merged))
• Added a warning about class side effects to the GravtiationalWaveTransient likelihood classes (!964 (merged))
• Allow ptemcee initialization with array (!955 (merged))
• Removed Prior.test_valid_for_rescaling (!956 (merged))
• Replaced deprecated numpy aliases builtins (!970 (merged))
• Fixed a bug in the algorithm to determine time resolution of ROQ (!967 (merged))
• Restructured utils module into several submodules. API remains backwards compatible (!873 (merged))
• Changed number of default walks in dynesty from 10*self.ndim to 100 (!961 (merged))

[1.1.2] 2021-05-05

Version 1.1.2 release of bilby

Added

• Added MCMC combine method and improved shuffle behaviour when combining results (!945 (merged))
• Added an extras requires to enable downstream packages to depend on bilby.gw (!939 (merged))
• Added a dynesty unit plot (!954 (merged))

Changes

• Removed a number of deprecated functions and classes (!936 (merged))
• Removed the pin on the numpy version (!934 (merged))
• Added requirements to MANIFEST (!929 (merged))
• Sped up the ROQ weight calculation with IFFT (!903 (merged))
• Streamlined hdf5 improvements (!925 (merged))
• Sped up import bilby by reducing internal imports (!933 (merged))
• Reduced time required for the sampler tests (!949 (merged))
• Resolved an unclear error message (!935 (merged))
• Encapsulated GMST method in gw.utils (!947 (merged))
• Improvements to gw.utils (!948 (merged))
• Improvements to core.prior (!944 (merged))
• Suppresses error message when creating injections (!938 (merged))
• Fixed loading meta data, booleans, string lists with hdf5 (!941 (merged))
• Made tables an optional requirement (!930 (merged))
• Added exists_ok to mkdir calls (!946 (merged))
• Increased the default dynesty checkpoint time to 30 minutes (!940 (merged))
• Resolved issue with sampling from prior test (!950 (merged))
• Added errstate ignore to the gw.conversion module (!952 (merged))
• Fixed issues with pickle saving and loading (!932 (merged))
• Fixed an issue with the _base_roq_waveform (!959 (merged))

[1.1.1] 2021-03-16

Version 1.1.1 release of bilby

Changes

• Added include requirements.txt in MANIFEST.in to stop the pip installation from breaking

[1.1.0] 2021-03-15

Version 1.1.0 release of bilby

Added

• Calibration marginalisation using a discrete set of realisations (!856 (merged))
• Nessai sampler (!921 (merged), !926 (merged))
• Capability to sample in aligned spin and spin magnitude (!868 (merged))
• Information gain now stored in the result (!907 (merged))
• Added option to save result/interferometers as pickle (!925 (merged))
• Added functionality to notch data (!898 (merged))
• Added LIGO India Aundha (A1) coordinates (!886 (merged))

Changes

• Fixed periodic keys not working when constrained priors are present in pymultinest (!927 (merged))
• Some changes to reweighting likelihoods (!851 (merged))
• CBCPriorDict is now a ConditionalPriorDict (!868 (merged))
• Fixed hyper PE example (!910 (merged))
• Pinned numpy and pandas version number (!916 (merged))
• Fixed an issue with GPS times in cpnest
• deepdish is now longer a requirement since it lost its support (!925 (merged))
• Removed annoying warning message due to use of newcommand in latex (!924 (merged))
• Interpolation should be slightly faster now because we now access interpolation libraries more directly (!917 (merged), !923 (merged))
• Documentation now builds properly (!915 (merged))
• Fixed a bug caused by loaded_modules_dict (!920 (merged))
• _ref_dist is an attribute now which speeds up distance marginalised runs slightly (!913 (merged))
• Cache normalisation for PriorDict objects without Constraint priors (!914 (merged))
• Removed some deprecated __future__ imports (!911 (merged))
• Fixed the behaviour of plot_waveform_posterior to use representative samples (!894 (merged))
• Uses tqdm.auto in some samplers now for better progress bars (!895 (merged))
• Fixed the correction of the epoch in time domain waveforms when using a segment duration that is not a power of two (!909 (merged))
• Fixed ultranest from failing
• Fixed issues with plotting failing in tests (!904 (merged))
• Changed the CI to run on auto-built images (!899 (merged))
• Resolved a matplotlib error occurring at dynesty checkpoint plots (!902 (merged))
• Fixed the multidimensional Gaussian example (!901 (merged))
• Now allow any lal dictionary option and added a numerical relativity file (!896 (merged))
• Fixed the likelihood count in dynesty (!853 (merged))
• Changed the ordering of keyword arguments for the Sine and Cosine constructors (!892 (merged))

[1.0.4] 2020-11-23

Version 1.0.4 release of bilby

Added

• Added a chirp-mass and mass-ratio prior which are uniform in component masses (!891 (merged))

Changes

• Fixed issue in the CI

[1.0.3] 2020-10-23

Version 1.0.3 release of bilby

Added

• SlabSpikePrior and examples (!857 (merged))
• Authors file (!885 (merged))
• CDF function to conditional priors (!882 (merged))
• Waveform plot in visualising_the_results.ipynb (!817 (merged))
• Addition of dnest4 sampler (!849 (merged), !883 (merged))
• Loaded modules added to meta-data (!881 (merged))

Changes

• Constraint to Uniform priors in ROQ tutorial (!884 (merged))
• Fix to CDF and PDF for SymmetricLogUniform prior (!876 (merged))
• Fix bug in evidence combination (!880 (merged))
• Typo fixes (!878 (merged), !887 (merged), !879 (merged))
• Minor bug fixes (!888 (merged))

[1.0.2] 2020-09-14

Version 1.0.2 release of bilby

Added

• Template for the docker files (!783 (merged))
• New delta_phase parameter (!850 (merged))
• Normalization factor to time-domain waveform plot (!867 (merged))
• JSON encoding for int and float types (!866 (merged))
• Various minor formatting additions (!870 (merged))

Changes

• Switched to the conda-forge version of multinest and ultranest (!783 (merged))
• Updates KAGRA - K1 interferometer information (!861 (merged))
• Restructures to tests to be uniform across project (!834 (merged))
• Fix to distance and phase marginalization method (!875 (merged))
• Fixed roundoff of in-plane spins samples with vectorisation (!864 (merged))
• Fix to reference distance and interpolant behavior (!858 (merged))
• Fix to constraint prior sampling method (!863 (merged))
• Clean up of code (!854 (merged))
• Various minor bug, test and plotting fixes (!859 (merged), !874 (merged), !872 (merged), !865 (merged))

[1.0.1] 2020-08-29

Version 1.0.1 release of bilby

Added

• Added an rcparams configuration for plotting (!832 (merged))
• Added chi_1 and chi_2 parameters to default latex label dictionary (!841 (merged))
• Allow output merged result file to be gzip or saved as a HDF5 file (!802 (merged))

Changes

• Fixed first value in EOS cumulative integral(!860 (merged))
• Fixed saving the number of likelihood evaluations (!848 (merged))
• Likelihood condition is now strictly increasing (!846 (merged))
• Fixed a minor issue with conditional priors that could cause unexpected behaviour in edge cases (!838 (merged))
• Fixed __repr__ method in the FromFile prior (!836 (merged))
• Fixed an issue that caused problems for some users when plotting with a latex backend (!816 (merged))
• Fixed bug that occurred when min/max of interpolated priors was changed (!815 (merged))
• Fixed time domain waveform epoch (!736 (merged))
• Fixed time keeping in multinest (!830 (merged))
• Now checks if marginalised priors were defined before marginalising (!829 (merged))
• Fixed an issue with multivariate Gaussian prior (!822 (merged))
• Various minor code improvements (!836 (merged))(!839 (merged))
• Various minor bug fixes and improvements to the documentation (!820 (merged))(!823 (merged))(!837 (merged))
• Various testing improvements (!833 (merged))(!847 (merged))(!855 (merged))(!852 (merged))

[1.0.0] 2020-07-06

Version 1.0 release of bilby

Changes

• Minor bug fixes and typo changes only from 0.6.9, see git.ligo.org/lscsoft/bilby/-/merge_requests?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=merged&milestone_title=1.0.0 for details

[0.6.9] 2020-05-21

Changes

• Improvement to the proposal step in dynesty (!774 (merged))
• Fix a bug in checking and making directories (!792 (merged))
• Clean up of the default prior files (!789 (merged))

[0.6.8] 2020-05-13

Added

• Option to sample in the sky frame (!786 (merged))
• Multiprocessing to reconstruction of marginalized parameters (!782 (merged))
• Generic reweighting method for likelihood / priors (!776 (merged))
• Parameterized EOS sampling (!543 (merged))
• Implementation of the UltraNest sampler (!766 (merged))
• Implementation of arVix result files (!772 (merged))
• Added basic pre-commit behaviour (!763 (merged))

Changes

• Updated the default PSD to O4 (!757 (merged))
• Make multinest allow long file names, optional and work with MPI (!764 (merged) !785 (merged))
• Add min/max to aligned spin prior (!787 (merged))
• Reduce redundant code (!703 (merged))
• Added testing for python 3.8 (!762 (merged))
• Improvements to the waveform plot (!769 (merged))

[0.6.7] 2020-04-15

Changes

• Allow dynesty to run with multiprocessing (!754 (merged))
• Rewrite ptemcee implementation (!750 (merged))
• Change 'source frame' to 'detector frame' in L34-35 of compare_samplers tutorial (!745 (merged))
• Allow lal dictionary to be passed through to '_base_lal_cbc_fd_waveform' (!752 (merged))

[0.6.6] 2020-03-06

Changes

• Fix bug where injected values are not present for corner plot (!749 (merged))
• Significant backwards-incompatible improvements to dynesty checkpointing (!746 (merged))
• Improve checkpoint interval calculation with dynesty (!741 (merged))
• Fix reading of PriorDict class from result file (!739 (merged))
• Fix definition of time for time-domain lalsimulation waveforms (!736 (merged))
• LaTeX text formatting for plots by default (!702 (merged))

Added

• Normalisation dynamically computed when using prior constraints (!704 (merged))

[0.6.5] 2020-02-14

Changes

• Fix for time reconstruction bug (!714 (merged))
• Resolved errors Waveform longer than the frequency array (!710 (merged))
• Prior reading clean-up (!715 (merged))
• More efficient dynesty restarting (!713 (merged))
• PP tests show 123 sigma bounds by default (!726 (merged))

Added

• HealPixPrior (!651 (merged))
• GW prior documentation (!720 (merged))
• Multiple contours to PP tests plots (!721 (merged))
• Distance marginalization for non-luminosity-distance parameters (!719 (merged))

Removed

• Pipenv (!724 (merged))

[0.6.4] 2020-01-30

Changes

• Discontinue python2.7 support (!697 (merged))
• Minor adjustments to the act calculation method (!679 (merged), !707 (merged))
• Restructure of the prior module (!688 (merged))
• Improvements to the documentation (!708 (merged), !700 (merged))
• Bug fix when maximum < minimum (!696 (merged))

Added

• Improved waveform error handling (!653 (merged))
• Waveform check to the CI (!698 (merged))

[0.6.3] 2020-01-03

Changed

• Fixed an issue with the ROQ segment scaling (!690 (merged))

[0.6.2] 2019-12-20

Added

• Introduced conditional prior sets (!332 (merged))(!673 (merged))(!674 (merged))
• Introduced joint priors (!668 (merged))
• Added a check to make sure sampling time exists before trying to update (!672 (merged))

Changed

• Fixed a caching issue with the waveform generators (!630 (merged))
• Fixed an issue that made the dynamic dynesty sampler not work (!667 (merged))
• Changed the backend docker files (!669 (merged))
• Fixed an error when plotting time domain data when using filtfilt=True
• Interped priors now dynamically update when new yy values are set (!675 (merged))
• Fixed the ROQ scaling checks (!678 (merged))

[0.6.1] 2019-12-02

HotFix release following 0.6.0 fixing a minor bug in the generation of derived parameters.

[0.6.0] 2019-12-02

Added

• A bilby-implemenatation of the dynesty rwalk proposal method (!640 (merged))
• An ACT estimate to the rwalk option (!643 (merged))
• HTML waveform plots and general improvements to the waveform plot (!641 (merged), !659 (merged))
• Add a function to resample bilby generated with a uniform in mass ratio and chirp_mass prior to uniform in component mass (!642 (merged))
• Adds checking to the ROQ usage: warning messages generated when out of bounds (!549 (merged))
• A safety check to the time reconstrucion (!633 (merged))
• Added the kombine sampler (!637 (merged))
• Added in-plane spins (!646 (merged))

Changes

• Changed the PriorDict base class to from OrderedDict to just dict. This fixes an issue with pickling priors (!652 (merged))
• Improvements to the behaviour of the conversion functions (!647 (merged))
• Prevent chirp mass railing for the GW150914 examples (!635 (merged))

[0.5.9] 2019-10-25

Added

• Default reflective boundaries for calibration parameters !623 (merged)
• Support for inferring method arguments !608 (merged)

Changes

• Speed up the prior evaluations by implementing directly with checks to scipy !627 (merged)
• Soft initialisation option for the Sampler class !620 (merged)
• Improvements to JSON reading and writing for functions !621 (merged)
• Fixed bug in prior reading !618 (merged) !617 (merged)
• Fixes to the examples !619 (merged) !614 (merged) !626 (merged) !616 (merged)
• Update to the test mode storing extra information !613 (merged)
• Minor improvements to the ptemcee sampler
• Improved contributing guidelines !610 (merged)

Removed

• Default printing of bilby version at import !608 (merged)

[0.5.8] 2019-09-26

Added

• Progress bar in post-processing step

Changed

• Fixed implementation of calibration !607 (merged)
• Fixed interaction with dynesty for reflective bounds !604 (merged)
• Fixed behaviour of n_effective with check pointing !603 (merged)
• Fixed testing of constants !605 (merged)
• Fixed bug in bilby_result with python2.7

[0.5.7] 2019-09-19

Added

• bilby_convert_resume file CL tool for converting dynesty resume files into preresults !599 (merged)

Changes

• Change the constants (Msun, REarth etc) to match the values in LAL !597 (merged)
• Change the Greenwhich Mean Sidereal Time conversion to match the method in LAL !597 (merged)
• Update dynesty requirement to 1.0.0
• Improve integration of bounds with dynesty !589 (merged)
• Fixed issue with mutable default argument !596 (merged)
• Allow the use of n_effective in dynesty !592 (merged)
• Allow the use of n_periodic in cpnest !591 (merged)
• Fix bug in dt calc

[0.5.6] 2019-09-04

Changes

• Deprecation of the old helper functions (e.g., fetch open data)
• Improvements to the documentation
• Fix a bug in the dt calculations of the GW likelihood
• Various small bug fixes

Added

• LAL version information in the meta data

[0.5.5] 2019-08-22

Added

• Reading/writing of the prior in a JSON format
• Checks for marginalization flags

Changes

• Improvements to the examples: reorganisation and fixing bugs
• Fixed bug with scipy>=1.3.0 and spline
• Removed the sqrt(2) normalisation from the scalar longitudinal mode
• Improve PSD filename reading (no longer required "/" to read local files)
• Fix bug in emcee chains
• Added a try/except clause for building the lookup table

[0.5.4] 2019-07-30

Added

• Analytic CDFs
• Reading/writing of grid results objects