LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA GWTC-3: Black Hole Data for Probing Cosmic Star Formation
by M. Fishbach / University of Toronto
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Description
Data products from the GWTC-3 catalog, supporting the analysis of the oldest black holes observed by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration. The data, released by M. Fishbach of the University of Toronto, accompanies the paper 'LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA's Oldest Black Holes: Probing star formation at cosmic noon with GWTC-3' (arXiv:2307.15824). It includes CSV and H5 files containing the data behind the paper's figures, along with Jupyter notebooks for reproducing plots and summary statistics.
Use Cases
Reproducing the figures from the associated astrophysics paper based on the provided data products.
Calculating summary statistics for black hole populations using the included code notebooks.
Analyzing the inferred properties of the oldest black holes in the GWTC-3 gravitational wave catalog.
Studying the connection between black hole mergers and star formation at 'cosmic noon'.
Strengths
Data is directly linked to a peer-reviewed publication (arXiv:2307.15824) accepted in ApJL.
Includes reproducible analysis code in the form of three Jupyter notebooks.
Provides data in multiple formats (CSV and H5) for different use cases.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
Source
LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration, data from the GWTC-3 catalog.
Collection Method
Gravitational wave observations from interferometers.
License is listed as Open Access (green); specific terms should be verified from the original repository.