tidalspin

tidalspin: for constraining black hole spins using the properties of relativistic tidal forces.

Paper

This repository contains the bayesian model that was developed in Mummery 2023.

A full mathematical description of the theory is contained in the paper.

Please cite this paper if you use this code.

Code

• The main program is contained in a python file tidalspin.py
• Some examples of how to use this package are in examples.py
• Running python3 tidalspin.py will reproduce Figure 10 of the paper.

Comments/questions

If you have any comments or questions please contact me at andrew.mummery@physics.ox.ac.uk