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gwastro / pycbc

Core package to analyze gravitational-wave data, find signals, and study their parameters. This package was used in the first direct detection of gravitational waves (GW150914), and is used in the ongoing analysis of LIGO/Virgo data.
http://pycbc.org
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PyCBC Offline search must be able to run on arbitrary detection combinations #3579

Open spxiwh opened 3 years ago

spxiwh commented 3 years ago

Currently H and L are required for one of the main statistics:

https://github.com/gwastro/pycbc/blob/master/pycbc/events/stat.py#L1313

GarethCabournDavies commented 3 years ago

Basically the issue here (when it was written) was how to consistently choose the two most sensitive detectors for use as the reference network sensitivity

I thought we had decided that we need to consistently choose the most sensitive detectors rather than a different pairing, but if it is just a requirement to choose the same detectors each time regardless of sensitivity, we could use the first two detectors alphabetically (or have reference_detectors as a kwarg)