Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff solver in Python

This repository provides a package that solves the Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff (TOV) equations for general-relativistic nonrotating equilibrium star configurations together with even/odd stationary perturbations of arbitrary multipolar index.

Note:

• TOV equations are formulated following Lindblom (1992)
• Perturbations equations and Love number computation follow Damour and Nagar (2009)
• The code supports EOS in piecewise polytropic and tabular form

See this file for authors and contributors.

The code is distributed under the GNU GPLv3 licence.

TOVpy has benefited from open source code and libraries, in particular:

• MATLAB TOVL code
• LIGO-LAL
• bilby