FTI (formerly FTA) inspiral test of GR
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Adds the FTI (formerly called FTA) inspiral test of GR to lalsimulation and lalinference. This has been extensively used and tested through past observing runs under the name FTA test (for flexible theory agnostic), but not merged to master until now. The code was further extended for O4 and renamed to FTI test (for flexible theory independent). The test can be used with any frequency-domain nonprecessing waveform as a GR baseline and has been mainly used with the SEOBNR waveform family in past publications. The method is described in arXiv:2203.13937.
Negative PN coefficients are added to struct tagPNPhasingSeries
as REAL8 vneg[PN_PHASING_SERIES_MAX_ORDER+1]
in lalsimulation/lib/LALSimInspiral.h
for the dipole radiation test.
This is an addition to the struct and should not modify existing functionality.
The review of this code handled by the TGR group is complete.
Reviewers: @michalis-agathos @stanislav.babak
Reviewees: @elise.sanger @jan.steinhoff @alessandra-buonanno
The latest review wiki for the extensions for O4 can be found here. The notable changes compared to O3 are:
The old review wiki of the FTA code used for the TGR papers up to O3 can be found here.