pygwb: A Python-based Library for Gravitational-wave Background Searches

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Acknowledgement

The author list of this paper includes, in order: all pygwb code authors, in order of successful GitLab merge requests, at the time of writing; code reviewers; and testers, in alphabetical order.

We would like to thank the LVK stochastic group for its continued support. Special thanks to G. Cella and J. Suresh for valuable comments on the manuscript.

A.I.R. is supported by the NSF award 1912594. A.R.R. is supported in part by the Strategic Research Program "High-Energy Physics" of the Research Council of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and by the iBOF "Unlocking the Dark Universe with Gravitational Wave Observations: from Quantum Optics to Quantum Gravity" of the Vlaamse Interuniversitaire Raad and by the FWO IRI grant I002123N "Essential Technologies for the Einstein Telescope." K.T. is supported by FWO-Vlaanderen through grant No. 1179522N. P.M.M. is supported by the NANOGrav Physics Frontiers Center, National Science Foundation (NSF), award number 2020265. L.T. is supported by the National Science Foundation through OAC-2103662 and PHY-2011865. K.J. is supported by FWO-Vlaanderen via grant number 11C5720N. F.D.L. is supported by an FRIA Grant of the Belgian Fund for Research, F.R.S.-FNRS. J.L. was supported by NSF Award PHY-2207270. D.D. is supported by the NSF as a part of the LIGO Laboratory. A.M. is supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 754510. J.D.R. was supported in part by NSF Award PHY-2207270 and startup funds provided by Texas Tech University. V.M. was supported in part by the NSF award PHY-2110238.

This material is based upon work supported by NSF's LIGO Laboratory, which is a major facility fully funded by the National Science Foundation. LIGO was constructed by the California Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology with funding from the National Science Foundation, and operates under cooperative agreement PHY-1764464. Advanced LIGO was built under award PHY-0823459. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the support of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) of the United Kingdom, the Max-Planck-Society (MPS), and the State of Niedersachsen/Germany for support of the construction of Advanced LIGO and construction and operation of the GEO 600 detector. Additional support for Advanced LIGO was provided by the Australian Research Council. The authors gratefully acknowledge the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for the construction and operation of the Virgo detector and the creation and support of the EGO consortium. The authors also gratefully acknowledge research support from these agencies as well as from the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of India, the Department of Science and Technology, India, the Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB), India, the Ministry of Human Resource Development, India, the Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI), the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación and Ministerio de Universidades, the Conselleria de Fons Europeus, Universitat i Cultura and the Direcció General de Política Universitaria i Recerca del Govern de les Illes Balears, the Conselleria d'Innovación, Universitats, Ciéncia i Societat Digital de la Generalitat Valenciana and the CERCA Programme Generalitat de Catalunya, Spain, the National Science Centre of Poland and the European Union—European Regional Development Fund; Foundation for Polish Science (FNP), the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, the Russian Science Foundation, the European Commission, the European Social Funds (ESF), the European Regional Development Funds (ERDF), the Royal Society, the Scottish Funding Council, the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA), the French Lyon Institute of Origins (LIO), the Belgian Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FRS-FNRS), Actions de Recherche Concert'es (ARC) and Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek—Vlaanderen (FWO), Belgium, the Paris Île-de-France Region, the National Research, Development and Innovation Office Hungary (NKFIH), the National Research Foundation of Korea, the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council Canada, Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovations, the International Center for Theoretical Physics South American Institute for Fundamental Research (ICTP-SAIFR), the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the Leverhulme Trust, the Research Corporation, the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan, the United States Department of Energy, and the Kavli Foundation. The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the NSF, STFC, INFN, and CNRS for the provision of computational resources The authors are grateful for computational resources provided by the LIGO Laboratory and supported by NSF Grants PHY-0757058 and PHY-0823459. This work carries LIGO document number P2300048.