gwdetchar.omega.config module

gwdetchar.omega can be used to process an arbitrary list of channels, including primary gravitational wave strain channels and auxiliary sensors, with arbitrary units and sample rates. Channels can be organized in contextual blocks using an INI-formatted configuration file that must be passed at runtime, which must include processing options for individual blocks. In a given block, the following keywords are supported:

Keywords

name	The full name of this channel block, which will appear as a section header on the output page (optional)
parent	The blockkey of a section that the current block should appear on the output page with (optional)
q-range	Range of quality factors (or Q) to search (required)
frequency-range	Range of frequencies to search (required)
resample	A sample rate (in Hz) to resample the input data to, must be different from the original sample rate (optional)
frametype	The type of frame files to read data from (will be superceded by source, required if source is not specified)
source	Path to a LAL-format cache pointing to frame files
state-flag	A data quality flag to require to be active before processing this block (can be superceded by passing --ignore-state-flags on the command-line; optional)
duration	The duration of data to process in this block (required)
fftlength	The FFT length to use in computing an ASD for whitening with an overlap of fftlength/2 (required)
search	Duration (seconds) of search time window (optional)
max-mismatch	The maximum mismatch in time-frequency tiles (optional)
snr-threshold	Threshold on SNR for plotting eventgrams (optional)
dt	Maximum acceptable time delay from the primary channel (optional)
always-plot	Always analyze this block regardless of channel significance (optional; will be superceded by state-flag unless --ignore-state-flags is passed)
plot-time-durations	Time-axis durations of omega scan plots (required)
channels	Full list of channels which appear in this block (required)

If cross-correlation will be implemented, the user will also need to specify a block whose blockkey is primary that includes only one channel and options for f-low (a high-pass corner frequency) and matched-filter-length. State flags are always ignored for the primary.

An example using many of the above options would look something like this:

[primary]
; the primary channel, which will be used as a matched-filter
f-low = 4.0
resample = 4096
frametype = L1_HOFT_C00
duration = 64
fftlength = 8
matched-filter-length = 2
channel = L1:GDS-CALIB_STRAIN

[GW]
; name of this block, which contains h(t)
name = Gravitational Wave Strain
q-range = 3.3166,150.0
frequency-range = 4.0,2048
resample = 4096
frametype = L1_HOFT_C00
state-flag = L1:DMT-GRD_ISC_LOCK_NOMINAL:1
duration = 64
fftlength = 8
max-mismatch = 0.2
snr-threshold = 5
always-plot = True
plot-time-durations = 1,4,16
channels = L1:GDS-CALIB_STRAIN

[CAL]
; a sub-block of channels with different options, but which should appear
; together with the block `GW` on the output page
parent = GW
q-range = 3.3166,150
frequency-range = 4.0,Inf
resample = 4096
frametype = L1_R
state-flag = L1:DMT-GRD_ISC_LOCK_NOMINAL:1
duration = 64
fftlength = 8
max-mismatch = 0.35
snr-threshold = 5.5
always-plot = True
plot-time-durations = 1,4,16
channels = L1:CAL-DELTAL_EXTERNAL_DQ

Note

The blockkey will appear in the navbar to identify channel blocks on the output page, with a scrollable dropdown list of channels in that block for ease of navigation.

The primary block will only be used to design a matched-filter. To process this channel during the omega scan, it must be included again in a subsequent block.

If running on a LIGO Data Grid (LDG) computer cluster, the detchar account houses default configurations organized by subsystem.

class gwdetchar.omega.config.OmegaConfigParser(ifo=None, defaults={}, **kwargs)

Bases: ConfigParser

Custom configuration parser for gwdetchar.omega

Parameters:

ifostr, optional

prefix of the interferometer to use, defaults to None

defaultsdict, optional

dictionary of default values to pass to the parser, default: {}

**kwargsdict, optional

additional keyword arguments to pass to ConfigParser

Attributes:

converters

Methods

read:	parse a list of INI-format configuration files
get_channel_blocks:	retrieve an ordered dictionary of contextual channel blocks, as organized in the source configuration

__abstractmethods__ = frozenset({})

__doc__ = 'Custom configuration parser for :mod:`gwdetchar.omega`\n\n    Parameters\n    ----------\n    ifo : `str`, optional\n        prefix of the interferometer to use, defaults to `None`\n\n    defaults : `dict`, optional\n        dictionary of default values to pass to the parser, default: ``{}``\n\n    **kwargs : `dict`, optional\n        additional keyword arguments to pass to `ConfigParser`\n\n    Methods\n    -------\n    read:\n        parse a list of INI-format configuration files\n    get_channel_blocks:\n        retrieve an ordered dictionary of contextual channel blocks, as\n        organized in the source configuration\n    '

__init__(ifo=None, defaults={}, **kwargs)

__module__ = 'gwdetchar.omega.config'

_abc_impl = <_abc._abc_data object>

get_channel_blocks()

Retrieve an ordered dictionary of channel blocks

These blocks are organized contextually by the user, since they are read in and preserved from the source configuration.

read(filenames)

Read and parse a filename or an iterable of filenames.

Files that cannot be opened are silently ignored; this is designed so that you can specify an iterable of potential configuration file locations (e.g. current directory, user’s home directory, systemwide directory), and all existing configuration files in the iterable will be read. A single filename may also be given.

Return list of successfully read files.

gwdetchar.omega.config.get_default_configuration(ifo, gpstime)

Retrieve a default configuration file stored locally

Parameters:

ifostr

interferometer ID string, e.g. 'L1'

gpstimefloat

time of analysis in GPS second format

gwdetchar.omega.config.get_fancyplots(channel, plottype, duration, caption=None)

Construct FancyPlot objects for output HTML pages

Parameters:

channelstr

the name of the channel

plottypestr

the type of plot, e.g. ‘raw_timeseries’

durationstr

duration of the plot, in seconds

captionstr, optional

a caption to render in the fancybox