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Fix MMRDNP amplitudes

Gregorio Carullo requested to merge MMRDNP-fix into master

Main scope

The main scope of this merge request is to fix an implementation issue with MMRDNP, by introducing a parameter representing the reference time at which the complex amplitudes were calibrated to numerical relativity.

In this technical note we explain how the problem was introduced, how it was fixed and present a few tests to check the correctness of the new implementation.

The main review wiki is here.

Additional features

Apart from the amplitudes fix, in this merge request:

i) We add mass ordering to MMRDNP (see technical note);

ii) We add the (2,2,1) mode to MMRDNP (see technical note);

iii) We add a new prior option (flat in mass ratio) to MMRDNP, to facilitate comparison with IMR analyses of GW190521-like systems;

iv) We account for the reference time in all other models for which this is applicable (KHS_2012, MMRDNS).

Edited by Gregorio Carullo

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