People & participation
Community
Building the Toolkit is a global effort, and its results are used more widely still. Here's who's involved, how to cite the work, and how to contribute.
Lead institutions
Development is led by researchers at University College Dublin, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research at MIT.
Where we are
The map shows the developers, contributors and users of the Toolkit. Lead institutions are in red, contributors in blue and users in yellow. If you belong on it and aren’t there yet, let us know.
Citing the Toolkit
If you use any part of the Toolkit in your research, please acknowledge it:
This work makes use of the Black Hole Perturbation Toolkit.
To cite the Toolkit, use the BibTeX entry. Some modules request additional citations — check each module’s documentation. If you use or extend a specific package, please reference it directly and link to it, for example:
The full PN series data can be found in the PostNewtonianSelfForce package of the Black Hole Perturbation Toolkit.
Why it matters
A lot of researcher time goes into the Toolkit. Citations show it’s being used, which helps secure the funding that keeps development going. Beyond citing, if you’ve used the Toolkit please email us at niels [dot] warburton [at] ucd [dot] ie so we can add you to the list of known users — and see your work on the publications page.
Contributing code
The goal isn’t to display every researcher’s cutting-edge code — it’s to build a common core that many existing codes share, so nobody has to reinvent the wheel. That shared foundation shortens development time for new software and, in turn, helps the whole field of black hole perturbation theory for gravitational wave science.