Flowchart

Pre-Production

Create working directories & configuration files

• Creates the directory where all the scripts and files necessary to run the analysis are collected (description)
• Creates data quality file list (description)
• Creates strain/MDC frame files lists (description)
• Submits jobs (description)

Production

The multi stage analysis

• the 2 stages analysis

• Read Configuration

• Read config (cwb::Init()) : the cWB config parameter file (cwb2G_parameters.C) (config class: config)
• Init TF transforms (cwb2G::Init()) : Init the WDM transforms & Load the xTalk Catalog (used by the MRA)
• Read the cWB plugins (cwb::LoadPlugin(TMacro &plugin, TMacro &configPlugin)) : the user scripts to customize the pipeline (description)
• Init Network (cwb::InitNetwork()) : the network of detectors
• Init History (cwb::InitHistory()) : the bookkeeping
• Init Job (cwb::InitJob()) : the selection of the period to be analyzed by a job (How job segments are created)

• Read Data - cwb2G::ReadData(double mdcShift, int ifactor)

• Read gw-strain from frames (cWB::frame) or it is generated “On The Fly” by the plugin
• In simulation mode (cWB::config::simulation > 0) the injections are read from frames or are generated ’On The Fly’ by the plugin - the waveforms are rescaled according to the cWB::config::factors and are added to the gw-strain (The cWB MDC engine)

• Data Conditioning - cwb2G::DataConditioning(int ifactor)

• Regression : remove the lines and the upconverted spurious noise (description)
• Whitening data : (description)

• Pixels Selection - cwb2G::Coherence(int ifactor) (description)

• Compute the maximum energy of TF pixels WSeries::maxEnergy
• Set pixel energy threshold network::THRESHOLD(double bpp) (WP has a new threshold function network::THRESHOLD(double bpp, double shape)
• Select the significant pixels network::getNetworkPixels(int LAG, double Eo, double DD=1., TH1F *hist=NULL)
• Single resolution clustering netcluster::cluster (clustering algorithms)
• Selection of single resolution clusters (WP) netcluster::select(char*, double) (clustering algorithms)

• Clustering & Cluster Selection - cwb2G::SuperCluster(int ifactor)

• Supercluster : Multi resolution clustering netcluster::supercluster (clustering algorithms)
• Rejection of the sub-threshold clusters network::subNetCut(int lag, float subnet=0.6, float subcut=0.33, TH2F *hist=NULL) (description)
• Defragment clusters netcluster::defragment(double T, double F, TH2F *=NULL) (For WP this step is performed before ’Rejection of the sub-threshold clusters’)
• Build reduced TF maps : The Sparse TF Map (description)

• Reconstruction & Parameters Estimation - cwb2G::Likelihood(int ifactor, char *ced_dir, netevent *output=NULL, TTree *net_tree=NULL, char *outDump=NULL)

• The cWB 2G coherent statistics (description)
• The cWB 2G production thresholds (description)
• The event reconstruction with WDM principle components network::likelihood2G(char mode, int lag, int ID, TH2F *hist=NULL)
  • WDM principle components (description)
  • cWB 2G regulators for WDM principle components (description)
  • The cWB 2G regulators (description)
• The event reconstruction with WDM packets (WP) network::likelihoodWP(char mode, int lag, int ID, TH2F *hist=NULL)
  • Wavelet packets (description)
  • The cWB 2G regulators for WDM packets (description)
• Save event parameters netevent::output2G(TTree *, network *, size_t, int, double)
  • The list of the event parameters : (description)

Post-Production

Collection of results and creation of figure of merits

• Produces the figure of merits and text files from the list of triggers generated during the production step (description)
  • Select the post-production thresholds
  • Merge the output event parameter files
  • Apply post-production vetoes
  • Creates WEB pages : (description)