gwcelery.tasks.first2years_external module

Create mock external events to be in coincidence with MDC superevents.

gwcelery.tasks.first2years_external.create_upload_external_event(gpstime, pipeline, ext_search)

Create a random external event VOEvent or Kafka alert packet.

Parameters:

• gpstime (float) – Event’s GPS time

• pipeline (str) – External trigger pipeline name

• ext_search (str) – Search field for external event

Returns:

event – Alert packet in format as if it was sent from GCN or Kafka, in a XML GCN notice alert packet in string format for the GRB or SubGRB search or a dictionary Kafka packet if for SubGRBTargeted search.

Return type:

str or dict

(task)gwcelery.tasks.first2years_external.upload_external_event(alert, ext_search=None)

Upload a random GRB event(s) for a certain fraction of MDC or O3-replay superevents.

Notes

Every n superevents, upload a GRB candidate within the standard CBC-GRB or Burst-GRB search window, where the frequency n is determined by the configuration variable joint_mdc_freq or joint_O3_replay_freq.

For O3 replay testing with RAVEN pipeline, only runs on gracedb-playground.

Parameters:

• alert (dict) – IGWN alert packet

• ext_search (str) – Search field for external event

Returns:

events, pipelines – Returns tuple of the list of external events created and the list of pipelines chosen for each event

Return type:

tuple

(task)gwcelery.tasks.first2years_external.upload_snews_event()

Create and upload a SNEWS-like MDC external event.

Returns:

ext_event – XML GCN notice alert packet in string format

Return type:

str