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GOTO Telescope Control System: code for VOEvent alert processing
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Additions and strategy changes for LVK O4 run #73

Closed martinjohndyer closed 1 year ago

martinjohndyer commented 1 year ago

The main purpose of this PR was to update the GW strategy and response for the O4 run (#70). After several iterations we decided on the following flow chart for event classification:

flow_o4_v3

As well as this we have a new follow-up cadence for the majority of events, which reschedules pointings 1h after the initial observation at the same rank before falling below the others (see https://github.com/GOTO-OBS/gtecs-obs/pull/92).

Some other changes worth mentioning:

martinjohndyer commented 1 year ago

I think this has been running for long enough to merge now. The wait was mostly to just check the retraction code worked, and it mostly did.