Overview

This project is focused on visualizing:

1. Spherical Harmonics (SH)
2. Spin-Weighted Spherical Harmonics (SWSH)
3. Gravitational Wave (GW) Modes

This toolkit intends to create a user-friendly environment for visualizing the aforementioned by providing intuitive and detailed representations of various modes and harmonics crucial to gravitational wave astrophysics.

Acknowledgments

This work has been made possible with the support of ICTS-TIFR, under the Long-Term Visiting Student Program, mentored by:

• Dr. Vaishak Prasad
• Prof. Prayush Kumar
• Prof. Parameswaran Ajith

Tools and Usage

The toolkit is housed in the visualizationtools directory. Detailed usage examples and testing scripts can be found in the test folder.

Getting Started

1. Clone the repository:

   git clone <repository_url>
   

Published work:

• Kashi, B., Visualization of Gravitational Radiation from Binary Black Holes (2024 ASI Conference Proceedings)
• Visualization of Gravitational Radiation from Binary Black Holes (ResearchGate)
• Visualising Higher-Order Gravitational Radiation Modes in Binary Black Hole Spacetimes (ResearchGate)

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More information on GWs and SHSWs is documented in vis_readme.pdf