Producing data for Figure 5

Figure 5 requires the production of a large number of overlaps. We have a script for computing these, but due to the number of overlaps required we run this in parallel.

The script for computing the overlaps is here:

• The python overlap computation script.

This script is then run in the following way:

python overlaps.py --min-m1 5 --max-m1 20 --num-m1 100 --fix-m2 1.5 --fix-chi1 0.3 --fix-chi2 0.3 --min-chip 0. --max-chip 0.9 --num-chip 100 --num-samples 1000 --num-jobs 1000 --job ${JOB_NUMBER} --output-file overlaps_${JOB_NUMBER}.hdf

and is run 1000 times with JOB_NUMBER varying between 0 and 999 inclusive. We used condor for this, but other schedulers/bash scripts would work just as well.