# Copyright (C) 2017 Alex Nitz
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# Preamble
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""" This modules contains information about the announced LIGO/Virgo
compact binary mergers
"""
import json
from astropy.utils.data import download_file
# For the time being all quantities are the 1-d median value
# FIXME with posteriors when available and we can just post-process that
# GWTC-1 catalog
gwtc1_url = "https://www.gw-openscience.org/catalog/GWTC-1-confident/filelist/"
[docs]def get_source(source):
"""Get the source data for a particular GW catalog
"""
if source == 'gwtc-1':
fname = download_file(gwtc1_url, cache=True)
data = json.load(open(fname, 'r'))
else:
raise ValueError('Unkown catalog source {}'.format(source))
return data['data']