Welcome to enterprise’s documentation!

ENTERPRISE (Enhanced Numerical Toolbox Enabling a Robust PulsaR Inference SuitE) is a pulsar timing analysis code, aimed at noise analysis, gravitational-wave searches, and timing model analysis.

User Guide

• Installation
  • From sources
• Contributing
  • Types of Contributions
  • Get Started!
  • Pull Request Guidelines
  • Tips
• enterprise Data Structures
  • Class Factories
  • The Pulsar class
  • The Parameter class
  • The Function structure
  • The Selection structure
  • Signals, SignalCollections, and PTAs oh my!
• Overview

Tutorials

• Analyzing Open MDC data
  • Get par and tim files
  • Load pulsars into Pulsar objects
  • Setup and run a simple noise model on a single pulsar
  • Run full PTA GWB analysis
• Analyzing 9-year NANOGrav data
  • Function to convert PAL2 noise parameters to enterprise parameter dict
  • Get par, tim, and noise files
  • Load into Pulsar class list
  • Get parameter dict from noisefiles
  • Set up model
  • Set white noise parameters
  • Set initial parameters drawn from prior and evaluate likelihood to fill caches
  • Set up sampler
  • Sample!
  • Plot output
  • Upper limit value

Code Documentation

• enterprise package
  • Subpackages
  • Submodules
  • enterprise.constants module
  • enterprise.pulsar module
  • enterprise.pulsar_inflate module
• tests package
  • Submodules
  • tests.enterprise_test_data module
  • tests.test_deterministic_signals module
  • tests.test_gp_coefficients module
  • tests.test_gp_priors module
  • tests.test_gp_signals module
  • tests.test_gp_wideband module
  • tests.test_hierarchical_parameter module
  • tests.test_likelihood module
  • tests.test_parameter module
  • tests.test_pta module
  • tests.test_pulsar module
  • tests.test_selections module
  • tests.test_set_parameter module
  • tests.test_utils module
  • tests.test_vector_parameter module
  • tests.test_white_signals module

Development Leads

• Justin A. Ellis (@jellis18) <https://github.com/jellis18>

• Stephen R. Taylor (@stevertaylor) <https://github.com/stevertaylor>

• Paul T. Baker (@paulthebaker) <https://github.com/paulthebaker>

• Michele Vallisneri (@vallis) <https://github.com/vallis>