Skip to content

Issues with XLALSimInspiralTDModesFromPolarizations and XLALSimInspiralPolarizationsFromSphHarmTimeSeries

I think the routine XLALSimInspiralTDModesFromPolarizations

https://git.ligo.org/lscsoft/lalsuite/blob/master/lalsimulation/src/LALSimInspiral.c#L1597

should not have the inclination or phiRef arguments, and instead set them to 0.

Also, I think the argument psi of the routine XLALSimInspiralPolarizationsFromSphHarmTimeSeries

https://git.ligo.org/lscsoft/lalsuite/blob/master/lalsimulation/src/LALSimInspiral.c#L3097

are mislabeled. This is not the polarization angle but the reference phase in the orbital plane, phiRef.