Welcome to soap’s documentation!

SOAP is a fast algorithm developed to search for coninuous sources of gravitational waves. However, has uses in searching for any long duration weak signal.

For more information on the search see the publications here:

Publications

• Methods paper: https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.023006

• CNN followup paper: https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.102.083024

• Parameter estimation paper: https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.106.083022

Setup

• Installation

SOAP search

• The Viterbi Algorithm
• Transition Matrix
• Bayesian line aware statistic

Usage

• Complete SOAP Pipeline Guide
  • Overview
  • Prerequisites
  • Pipeline Stages
  • Example Complete Workflow
  • Performance Optimization
  • Troubleshooting
  • Getting Help
• SOAP Usage
  • Run the soap search
  • Generate lookup tables
  • Generate a CW Signal
  • Load an SFT from file
  • Write and SFT to a file
• CNN Usage
  • Creating data
  • CNN usage
• Neville Usage
  • Neville model
• Pipeline Usage
  • Pipeline usage

Info

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page