Quick Gravitational Wave Data Generation

This code generates gravitational waves very fast.

This code is a basic computer implementation of the quadrupole formalism of general relativity applied to point-mass binary systems in circular orbits.

The code was written with the aim to efficiently generate large amounts of parameter-dependent gravitational waveform time-series used for the incipient development of neural networks dedicated to the detection and classification of gravitational waves. The variable source parameters considered are the binary mass ratio, orbital inclination, distance to source and antenna pattern coefficients. The generated gravitational waveforms are either "clean" or distorted with adjustable additive random noise.

Besides gravitational waveforms, the code also computes the parameter-dependent time-evolution of the main physical quantities in the quadrupole formalism (orbital separation, gravitational waves frequency, amplitude and phase).

An updated version of the code, with enhanced functionalities, will soon be available on MathWorks File Exchange.