laurence.datrier@LIGO.ORG - posted 17:40, Wednesday 19 June 2019 (50072)
BNS range and duty cycle if wind-independent for O3
Laurence Datrier. Sheila Dwyer
A follow-up to alog 49682
We convolved our results for BNS range and duty cycle as a function of wind speed with wind speed frequency for O3 (data from 1st April 2019 to 2nd June 2019). We compare the average BNS range and duty cycle to the range if we were independent of the wind. In order to do this we approximated the DC and BNS range if wind-independent to wind values before there is a significant decay (usually 10th to 15th percentile). This is done for 1min max trends for the wind, and 30min max trends.
| Trend | Average BNS range (Mpc) | Average wind-independent BNS range (Mpc) | Improvement (Mpc) | % improvement on detection rates (based on volume) | Average duty cycle | Average wind-independent duty cycle |
| 1min max | 109.31 | 109.85 | 0.54 | 1.48% | 75.15% | 84.73% |
| 30min max | 109.31 | 110.23 | 0.93 | 2.50% | 75.61% | 83.66% |