IPTA DR2 - GWB analysis MCMC output

IPTA DR2 common red noise, MCMC output
 

These files are the primary output from a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling process. They are samples from the posterior probability distribution for a particular model described in the companion paper.

Each zipped tarball contains four files.  The "chain" file has several tab-separated columns, each of which corresponds to a model parameter, except the last four which are metadata.  The parameter names (including metadata) are listed in the companion "params" file.  The frequencies used in the common red noise models are listed in the "crn_frequencies" file.  Additional information is provided in a README file.

Each row of the chain file is one sample from the model posterior.  The first samples at the beginning of the MCMC are the "burn-in" phase, before the chain has converged to the posterior.  We recommend discarding the first ~25% of samples before using them to make inferences.