Questions for S5 analysis

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Questions for S5 analysis

• Peter Saulson

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Questions for S5

• What can be ready to announce 6 months after
  start?
• What are the marquee projects?
• What organization will let us produce quick
  results?
• How to promptly produce DQ/vetoes/calibration?
• Would we be ready to make a detection claim?
• Do we have enough computing power?

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What can be ready to announce 6 months after
start?

• High threshold online searches?
• Or other rolling analyses?
• Batch-mode results from early part of run?

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What are the marquee projects?

• Inspiral
• Burst
• CW
• Stochastic

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What organization will let us produce quick
results?

• A war room for each search?
• Meeting daily by telecon?
• Detchar investigations strongly coupled to
  searches?

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How to promptly produce

• Data Quality flags?
• Vetoes?
• Calibration?

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Would we be ready to make a detection claim?

• Statistical threshold?
• What establishes the ring of truth?
• Coherence/alikeness tests for inspiral and burst?
• Repetition for CW, stochastic?
• How to rule out instrumental or environmental
  causes?

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Do we have enough computing power?