Detailed Description

This structure stores a representation of a plane gravitational wave propagating from a particular point on the sky.

Several alternate representations are permitted to allow a more natural characterization of quasiperiodic waveforms.

Note: It is permissible to set only some of the REAL4TimeSeries or REAL4TimeVectorSeries fields above, but the waveform is treated as being zero except during those times when both a and phi are defined. Where shift is not specified, it is assumed that \( \Phi \) is zero; where f is not specified but phi is, \( f(t) \) can be computed as \( \dot{\phi}(t)/2\pi \) . Where f and phi overlap, they must be defined consistently.

Data Fields
SkyPosition	position
	The location of the source in the sky; this should be in equatorial celestial coordinates, but routines may be able to do the conversion. More...

REAL4	psi
	The polarization angle \( \psi \) , in radians, as defined in Appendix B of [1] . More...

REAL4TimeVectorSeries *	a
	A time-sampled two-dimensional vector storing the amplitudes \( A_1(t) \) and \( A_2(t) \) , in dimensionless strain. More...

REAL4TimeSeries *	f
	A time-sampled sequence storing the instantaneous frequency \( f(t) \) , in Hz. More...

REAL8TimeSeries *	phi
	A time-sampled sequence storing the phase function \( \phi(t) \) , in radians. More...

REAL4TimeSeries *	shift
	A time-sampled sequence storing the polarization shift \( \Phi(t) \) , in radians. More...

UINT4	dtDelayBy2
	A user specified half-interval time step for the Doppler delay look-up table (will default to 400s if set to 0) More...

UINT4	dtPolBy2
	A user defined half-interval time step for the polarisation response look-up table (will default to 300s if set to 0) More...