Published August 4, 2023 | Version 1.1.0
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PTPlot: a tool for exploring the gravitational wave power spectrum from first-order phase transitions

  • 1. University of Helsinki
  • 1. ROR icon University of Helsinki

Description

  • PTPlot is a tool for exploring the gravitational wave power spectrum from first-order phase transitions, and evaluating the likelihood of detecting a signal with the LISA mission.
  • The results plotted by this tool are based on the paper Detecting gravitational waves from cosmological phase transitions with LISA: an update, arXiv:1910.13125, which has been published in JCAP. Please cite both that paper, and this Zenodo deposit, if possible.
  • The source for PTPlot is available at https://github.com/CFT-HY/PTPlot (previously https://bitbucket.org/dweir/ptplot).

This version is a snapshot of the v1.1.0 release. Notable changes include:

  • Additional documentation, including a technical note authored by Jenni Häkkinen describing the physics of PTPlot. This technical note is also directly included with this Zenodo deposit.
  • Bug fixes to the plotting code. Old multithreading code has been removed.
  • The LISA Cosmology Working Group watermark has been removed.

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Additional details

Related works

Is supplement to
Journal article: 10.1088/1475-7516/2020/03/024 (DOI)

Funding

Research Council of Finland
LISA and the electroweak phase transition 324882
UK Research and Innovation
Gravitational wave cosmology for LISA ST/R003904/1
Research Council of Finland
LISA and the electroweak phase transition 328958
Research Council of Finland
P4T: Precision Predictions for Primordial Phase Transitions 349865
Research Council of Finland
LISA and the electroweak phase transition 353131