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Prior

UniformComponentChirpMassPrior ¤

Bases: PowerLawPrior

Prior for chirp mass induced by a uniform distribution over component masses.

When both component masses are drawn uniformly, the chirp mass follows a power-law distribution with exponent alpha = 1:

$$

p(\mathcal{M}c) \propto \mathcal{M}_c, \quad \mathcal{M}_c \in [x{\min}, x_{\max})

$$

Methods:

Name Description
__init__

Args:

__init__(xmin: float, xmax: float) -> None ¤

Parameters:

Name Type Description Default
xmin float

Minimum chirp mass.

required
xmax float

Maximum chirp mass.

required