Bilby

A user-friendly Bayesian inference library. Fulfilling all your Bayesian dreams.

Online material to help you get started:

• Installation instructions
• Documentation

If you need help, find an issue, or just have a question/suggestion you can

• Join our Slack workspace (you may need to email the support desk to request an invite)
• Email our support desk: contact+lscsoft-bilby-1846-issue-@support.ligo.org
• Ask questions (or search through other users questions and answers) on StackOverflow using the bilby tag
• For www.git.ligo.org users, submit issues directly through the issue tracker
• For www.chat.ligo.org users, join the #bilby-help or #bilby-devel channels

We encourage you to contribute to the development of bilby. This is done via a merge request. For help in creating a merge request, see this page or contact us directly. For advice on contributing, see the contributing guide.

Citation guide

If you use bilby in a scientific publication, please cite

• Bilby: A user-friendly Bayesian inference library for gravitational-wave astronomy

Additionally, bilby builds on a number of open-source packages. If you make use of this functionality in your publications, we recommend you cite them as requested in their associated documentation.

Samplers

• dynesty
• nestle
• pymultinest
• cpnest
• emcee
• ptemcee
• ptmcmcsampler
• pypolychord
• PyMC3

Gravitational-wave tools

• gwpy
• lalsuite
• astropy

Plotting

• corner for generating corner plot
• matplotlib for general plotting routines