PyCBC: A Toolkit for Advanced-Detector Era Gravitational Wave Data Analysis

Gravitational wave detections are an important step into the future of astrophysics because they will be able to provide a new look at our universe, which will complement our traditional electromagnetic observations. Inspiraling compact binary systems are an important source for potential detections. As the sensitivity of ground-based interferometers is improved, searches for gravitational waves from these sources become more computationally intensive; more data-analysis tools are required to make these searches as efficient as possible. PyCBC is one such software toolkit that will provide a high-level framework for analysis, including the ability to transparently use GPU computing.