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Exposing SpinTaylor internal variables and providing hlm modes for precessing Spin Taylor

Riccardo Sturani requested to merge riccardo-sturani/lalsuite:PN_utils into master

The three patches (not to be squashed!) do:

  • Provide a utility function to grab individual l,m modes from NR simulations
  • Correct the logarithmic term in v erroneously added to the amplitude at 1.5PN order in XLALSimInspiralPrecessingPolarizationWaveforms(): it is actually a 4PN phasing terms, as explained in sec. VIII of Class.Quant.Grav. 25 (2008) 165003, arXiv 0802.1249.
  • Add a utility function exposing SpinTaylor external variables (phase, spins, orbital angular momentum...) and returning hlms. In lalsimulation/test checks are performed for consistency of the hlm modes under rotations and for hp and hx calculation via XLALSimInspiralPrecessingPolarizationWaveforms() or via hlms.

This replaces merge request #407 (closed)

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