Fisher Matrix Preloaded -- Fisher4Cast

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2009-06-04

arxiv.org/abs/0906.0993v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

30 Pages, 15 figures. Minor revisions to match published version, with some additional functionality described to match the cu

Scientific paper

10.1142/S0218271811020548

The Fisher Matrix is the backbone of modern cosmological forecasting. We describe the Fisher4Cast software: a general-purpose, easy-to-use, Fisher Matrix framework. It is open source, rigorously designed and tested and includes a Graphical User Interface (GUI) with automated LATEX file creation capability and point-and-click Fisher ellipse generation. Fisher4Cast was designed for ease of extension and, although written in Matlab, is easily portable to open-source alternatives such as Octave and Scilab. Here we use Fisher4Cast to present new 3-D and 4-D visualisations of the forecasting landscape and to investigate the effects of growth and curvature on future cosmological surveys. Early releases have been available at http://www.cosmology.org.za since May 2008 with 750 downloads in the first year. Version 2.2 is made public with this paper and includes a Quick Start guide and the code used to produce the figures in this paper, in the hope that it will be useful to the cosmology and wider scientific communities.

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