v1.4.1

[1.4.1] 2022-12-14

Version 1.4.1 release of Bilby

This is a bugfix release to address some minor issues identified after v1.4.0.

Changes

• Documentation updates (!1181, !1183)
• Fix some of the examples in the repository (!1182)
• Make sure conversion to symmetric mass ratio always returns a valid value (!1184)
• Provide a default nlive for dynamic dynesty (!1185)
• Enable the relative binning likelihood to be initialized with ra/dec when sampling in a different sky parameterization (!1186)
• Make sure that all dumping pickle files is done safely (!1189)
• Make error catching for dynesty checkpointing more robust (!1190)

v1.4.0

[1.4.0] 2022-11-18

Version 1.4.0 release of Bilby

The main changes in this release are support for more recent versions of dynesty (!1138)
and nessai (!1161) and adding the
RelativeBinningGravitationalWaveTransientLikelihood (!1105)
(see arXiv:1806.08792) for details.

Added

• Per-detector likelihood calculations (!1149)
• bilby.gw.likelihood.relative.RelativeBinningGravitationalWaveTransient (!1105)

Changes

• Reset the timer for PyMultiNest when overwriting an existing checkpoint directory (!1163)
• Cache the computed the noise log likelihood for the GravitationalWaveTransient (!1179)
• Set the reference chirp mass for the multi banded likelihood from the prior when not specified (!1169)
• Bugfix in the name of the saved ASD file in Interferometer.save_data (!1176)
• Modify the window length for stationarity tests for ptemcee (!1146)
• Explicit support for nessai>=0.7.0 (!1161)
• Allow prior arguments read from a string to be functions (!1144)
• Support dynesty>=1.1.0 (!1138)

1.3.0

[1.3.0] 2022-10-23

Version 1.3.0 release of Bilby

This release has a major change to a sampler interface, pymc3 is no longer supported, users should switch to pymc>=4. This release also adds a new top-level dependency, bilby-cython.

This release also contains various documentation improvements.

Added

• Improved logging of likelihood information when starting sampling (!1148)
• Switch some geometric calculations to use optimized bilby-cython package (!1053)
• Directly specify the starting point for bilby_mcmc (!1155)
• Allow a signal to be specified to only be present in a specific Interferometer (!1164)
• Store time domain model function in CBCResult metadata (!1165)

Changes

• Switch from pymc3 to pymc (!1117)
• Relax equality check for distance marginalization lookup to allow cross-platform use (!1150)
• Fix to deal with non-checkpointing bilby_mcmc analyses (!1151)
• Allow result objects with different analysis configurations to be combined (!1153)
• Improve the storing of environment information (!166)
• Fix issue when specifying distance and redshfit independently (!1154)
• Fix a bug in the storage of likelihood/prior samples for bilby_mcmc (!1156)

1.2.1

[1.2.1] 2022-09-05

Version 1.2.1 release of Bilby

This release contains a few bug fixes following 1.2.0.

Changes

• Improve how sampling seed is handled across samplers (!1134)
• Make sure labels are included when evidences are in corner plot legend (!1135)
• Remove calls to getargspec (!1136)
• Make sure parameter reconstruction cache is not mangled when reading (!1126)
• Enable the constant uncertainty calibration spline to have a specifiable boundary condition (!1137)
• Fix a bug in checkpointing for bilby_mcmc (!1141)
• Fix the LALCBCWaveformGenerator (!1140)
• Switch to automatic versioning with setuptools_scm (!1125)
• Improve the stability of the multivariate normal prior (!1142)
• Extend mass conversions to include source-frame parameters (!1131)
• Fix prior ranges for GW150914 example (!1129)

1.2.0

[1.2.0] 2022-08-15

Version 1.2.0 release of Bilby

This is the first release that drops support for Python<3.8.

This release involves major refactoring, especially of the sampler implementations.

Additionally, there are a range of improvements to how information is passed
with multiprocessing.

Added

• Time marginalized ROQ likelihood (!1040)
• Multiple and multi-banded ROQ likelihood (!1093)
• Gaussian process likelihoods (!1086)
• CBCWaveformGenerator added with CBC specific defaults (!1080)

Changes

• Fixes and improvements to multi-processing (!1084, !1043, !1096)
• Major refactoring of sampler implementations (!1043)
• Fixes for reading/writing priors (!1103, !1127, !1128)
• Fixes/updates to exmample scripts (!1050, !1031, !1076, !1081, !1074)
• Fixes to calibration correction in GW likelihoods (!1114, !1120, !1119)

Deprecated/removed

• Require Python>=3.8
• Require astropy>=5
• bilby.core.utils.conversion.gps_time_to_gmst
• bilby.core.utils.spherical_to_cartesian
• bilby.core.utils.progress
• Deepdish IO for Result, Interferometer, and InterferometerList

1.1.5

[1.1.5] 2022-01-14

Version 1.1.5 release of bilby

Added

• Option to enforce that a GW signal fits into the segment duration (!1041)
• Remove the save .dat samples file with dynesty (!1028)
• Catch corrupted json result result files being passed (!1034)

Changes

• Fixes to conversion function for nessai and cpnest (!1055)
• Workaround for astropy v5 (!1054)
• Various fixes to testing system (!1038, !1044, !1045, !1048)
• Updated defaults for nessai (!1042)
• Small bug fixes (!1032, !1036, !1039, !1046, !1052)
• Bug fix in the definition of some standard interferometers (!1037)
• Improvements to the multi-banded GWT likelihood (!1026)
• Improve meta data comparison (!1035)

1.1.3

[1.1.3] 2021-07-02

Version 1.1.3 release of bilby

Added

• Added Categorical prior (!982)(!990)
• Added a built-in mcmc sampler (bilby_mcmc) (!905)(!985)
• Added run statistics to the dynesty meta data (!969)
• Added cdf method to PriorDict classes (!943)

Changes

• Removed the autoburnin causing kombine to fail the CI tests (!988)
• Sped up the spline interpolation in ROQ (!971)
• Replaced bessel interpolant to scipy function (!976)
• Improved checkpoint stats plot (!977)
• Fixed a typo in the sampler documentation (!986)
• Fixed issue that causes ConditionalDeltaFunction posterior samples not to be saved correctly (!973)
• Solved an issue where injected SNRs were logged incorrectly (!980)
• Made Python 3.6+ a specific requirement (!978)
• Fixed the calibration and time marginalized likelihood (!978)
• Removed a possible error in the distance marginalization (!960)
• Fixed an issue where check_draw did not catch np.nan values (!965)
• Removed a superfluous line in the docs configuration file (!963)
• Added a warning about class side effects to the GravtiationalWaveTransient likelihood classes (!964)
• Allow ptemcee initialization with array (!955)
• Removed Prior.test_valid_for_rescaling (!956)
• Replaced deprecated numpy aliases builtins (!970)
• Fixed a bug in the algorithm to determine time resolution of ROQ (!967)
• Restructured utils module into several submodules. API remains backwards compatible (!873)
• Changed number of default walks in dynesty from 10*self.ndim to 100 (!961)

1.1.2

[1.1.2] 2021-05-05

Version 1.1.2 release of bilby

Added

• Added MCMC combine method and improved shuffle behaviour when combining results (!945)
• Added an extras requires to enable downstream packages to depend on bilby.gw (!939)
• Added a dynesty unit plot (!954)

Changes

• Removed a number of deprecated functions and classes (!936)
• Removed the pin on the numpy version (!934)
• Added requirements to MANIFEST (!929)
• Sped up the ROQ weight calculation with IFFT (!903)
• Streamlined hdf5 improvements (!925)
• Sped up import bilby by reducing internal imports (!933)
• Reduced time required for the sampler tests (!949)
• Resolved an unclear error message (!935)
• Encapsulated GMST method in gw.utils (!947)
• Improvements to gw.utils (!948)
• Improvements to core.prior (!944)
• Suppresses error message when creating injections (!938)
• Fixed loading meta data, booleans, string lists with hdf5 (!941)
• Made tables an optional requirement (!930)
• Added exists_ok to mkdir calls (!946)
• Increased the default dynesty checkpoint time to 30 minutes (!940)
• Resolved issue with sampling from prior test (!950)
• Added errstate ignore to the gw.conversion module (!952)
• Fixed issues with pickle saving and loading (!932)
• Fixed an issue with the _base_roq_waveform (!959)

0.6.2

[0.6.2] 2019-12-20

Added

• Introduced conditional prior sets (!332)(!673)(!674)
• Introduced joint priors (!668)
• Added a check to make sure sampling time exists before trying to update (!672)

Changed

• Fixed a caching issue with the waveform generators (!630)
• Fixed an issue that made the dynamic dynesty sampler not work (!667)
• Changed the backend docker files (!669)
• Fixed an error when plotting time domain data when using filtfilt=True
• Interped priors now dynamically update when new yy values are set (!675)
• Fixed the ROQ scaling checks (!678)

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