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Episode 536: Ryan Magee on Software Engineering in Physics Research

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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Using a Post-Processing Pipeline to Analyze Gravitational Wave Data?

The software that I primarily work on is stream-based. So what we're interested in doing is as the data goes through the collectors, through the detectors, there's a post-processing pipeline. And so my pipeline works on analyzing that data as soon as it comes in and continuously updating the broader world with results. We typically don't broadcast our candidates to the world unless we have a very strong indication that the candidate is astrophysical. Of course, there are candidates that slip through that wind up being noise or glitches that we later have to correct our interpretation of.

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