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Holodeck was used to perform the 'Astrophysical Interpretation' of the 15yr NANOGrav dataset, by the NANOGrav Astrophysics Working Group. The publication can be found here: Agazie+2023 (for the NANOGrav Collaboration) - The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Constraints on Supermassive Black Hole Binaries from the Gravitational-wave Background. The astrophysics datasets can be found here: LINK. The analysis notebooks can be found here: LINK.
The initial set of NANOGrav 15yr papers are:
- The 15yr Dataset [N15data]_
- Detector and Noise Characterization [N15detchar]_
- Measuring a Gravitational Wave Background [N15GWB]_
- Astrophysical Interpretation [N15astro]_
- Constraints on New Physics [N15NP]_
- Search for Anisotropy [N15anisotropy]_
- Search for Individual Sources (CWs) [N15CWs]_
The use of holodeck in the 15yr astrophysics interpretation:
[1] : The 15yr Astro paper quotes an initial separation (the hard_sepa_init parameter) of "1e3 pc", this is incorrect and the actual value used in the analysis was 1e4 pc. The values in the parameter-space objects (i.e. :py:class:`~holodeck.librarian.param_spaces_classic:_PS_Classic_Phenom`) is correct.