kuibit: Analyzing Einstein Toolkit simulations with Python
Gabriele Bozzola
Abstract
kuibit 1 is a Python library for analyzing simulations performed with the Einstein Toolkit 2 Lffler et al. ( Over the past years, numerical simulations like the ones enabled by the Einst ein Toolkit have become a critical tool in modeling, predicting, and understanding several astrophysical phenomena, including binary black hole or neutron star mergers. As a result of the recent detections of gravitational waves by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration, these studies are at the forefront of scientific research. The package presented in this paper, kuibit, provides an intuitive infrastructure to read and represent the output of the Einstein Toolkit. This simplifies analyzing simulations and significantly lowers the barrier in learning how to use the tool.