LALSuite
The LSC Algorithm Library Suite (LALSuite) is comprised of various gravitational wave data analysis routines written in C following the ISO/IEC 9899:1999 standard, more commonly referred to as C99.
Project details
Components
LALSuite is comprised of the following components:
- LAL: Core gravitational wave analysis routines
- LALFrame: LAL wrapping of the LIGO/Virgo Frame library
- LALMetaIO: LAL wrapping of the MetaIO LIGO_LW XML library
- LALSimulation: LAL routines for gravitational waveform and noise generation
- LALBurst: LAL routines for burst gravitational wave data analysis
- LALInspiral: LAL routines for inspiral and ringdown CBC gravitational wave data analysis
- LALPulsar: LAL routines for pulsar and continuous wave gravitational wave data analysis
- LALInference: LAL routines for Bayesian inference data analysis
- LALApps: Collection of gravitational wave data analysis codes and pipelines utilising the LAL libraries
The components of LALSuite can be obtained as a RPMs, Debs, tarball, or directly from the Git development repository. Developers should obtain LALSuite from Git.
Project Librarian
Adam Mercer. Email:
adam.mercer at ligo.org
Documentation
For complete instructions on building LALSuite, see
LALSuiteInstall.
The documentation for all LALSuite components is generated using Doxygen. The most recent LALSuite documentation from the nightly build can be found
here.
The
LAL Specification and Style Guide document (commonly known as the
LAL Spec) contains the software specifications that code written for LALSuite should conform to. The most recent version of the
LAL Spec can be found
here.
Download
LALSuite-6.80 was released on 18 December 2020, and is comprised of:
Previous releases can be found in the following
directory.
The latest version approved by the SCCB is LALSuite-6.80.
Git Repository
The LALSuite sources are located in the LALSuite Git repository. See the following
instructions on how to get started. You may also
browse the LALSuite Git repository using the
GitLab web interface.
Bug Reporting
The LALSuite bug reporting system can be found
here. You will need a LIGO.ORG username and password.
Before you file a ticket, please read and search through the list of [https://git.ligo.org/lscsoft/lalsuite/issues][current]] and
previous issues to determine if your bug has already been reported. If it has not, please report the issue giving as much detail as possible.
If an issue already exists and has not been fixed, add any additional information to the existing report. If your bug exists and has been fixed, upgrade to the version detailed in the issue to confirm if it has been fixed correctly. If it was not, please reopen the issue.
Nightly Build
LALSuite is built nightly on a variety of platforms and using a variety of different compilers. Further information can be found
here.
Mailing Lists
There are several mailing lists related to LALSuite development:
Developers should subscribe to the
LAL Discuss and
DASWG mailing lists as important development information is regularly posted and discussed on these lists.
Dependencies
The required software dependencies depend on which packages you wish to install, the core dependencies are:
- GSL - The GNU Scientific Library.
- FFTW - The Fastest Fourier Transform in the West.
Other dependencies that are needed for some of the sub packages are:
- !FrameL- LIGO/Virgo Frame library (needed for LALFrame)
- !MetaIO - LIGO_LW XML library (needed for LALMetaIO, LALBurst, LALInspiral, and LALStochastic)
- libxml2 - XML parsing library (needed for LALXML)
Instructions for building these software packages from source code can be found
here. There also may be prebuilt binaries available for your platform, for more details please see the LSCSoft Repository pages
here.