Parameter estimation for compact binaries with ground-based gravitational-wave observations using the LALInference software library

J. Veitch, V. Raymond, B. Farr, W. Farr, P. Graff, S. Vitale, B. Aylott, K. Blackburn, N. Christensen, M. Coughlin, W. Del Pozzo, F. Feroz, J. Gair, C.-J. Haster, V. Kalogera, T. Littenberg, I. Mandel, R. O’Shaughnessy, M. Pitkin, C. Rodriguez, C. Röver, T. Sidery, R. Smith, M. Van Der Sluys, A. Vecchio, W. Vousden, and L. Wade School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom Nikhef, Science Park 105, Amsterdam 1098XG, The Netherlands LIGO, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) and Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 185 Albany Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA Physics and Astronomy, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota 55057, USA Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA Astrophysics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Madingley Road, Cambridge CB3 0HA, United Kingdom University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York 14623, USA SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut), Callinstraße 38, 30167 Hannover, Germany Department of Medical Statistics, University Medical Center Göttingen, Humboldtallee 32, 37073 Göttingen, Germany Department of Astrophysics/IMAPP, Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands (Received 26 September 2014; published 6 February 2015)