.. currentmodule:: gwpy.timeseries

.. _gwpy-timeseries-opendata:

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Accessing Open Data from GWOSC
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The Gravitational-Wave Open Science Center
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|GWOSCl|_ provides strain data from gravitational-wave observatories for
public use, including small datasets around each GW event detection,
and bulk datasets covering entire observing epochs.

.. note::

   For full details of the available data, please see

   https://www.gw-openscience.org/data/

.. _gwpy-timeseries-fetchopendata:

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:meth:`TimeSeries.fetch_open_data`
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GWpy provides the :meth:`TimeSeries.fetch_open_data` method as an interface
to the GWOSC data archive, requiring users to provide a minimum of
information in order to access data.

For example, to fetch 30 seconds of strain data around the first ever
gravitational-wave detection (|GW150914|_), you need to give the prefix
of the relevant observatory (``'H1'`` for the LIGO Hanford Observatory,
``'L1'`` for LIGO Livingston), and the start and end times of your query.
We can use the |gwosc-mod|_ Python package to query GWOSC itself for the
right central GPS time:

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   >>> from gwosc.datasets import event_gps
   >>> gps = event_gps("GW150914")
   >>> start = int(gps) - 15
   >>> end = int(gps) + 15

Then we can call :meth:`TimeSeries.fetch_open_data` to download the
calibrated GW strain data in that interval:

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   >>> from gwpy.timeseries import TimeSeries
   >>> data = TimeSeries.fetch_open_data('L1', start, end)

We can then trivially plot these data:

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   >>> plot = data.plot()
   >>> plot.show()

.. admonition:: Plotting a `TimeSeries`

   For more details on plotting a `TimeSeries`, see
   :ref:`gwpy-timeseries-plot`.

.. note:: :meth:`TimeSeries.fetch_open_data` keywords

   For more details on all of the available keyword options,
   see the documentation of :meth:`TimeSeries.fetch_open_data`.

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Accessing data from the Auxiliary Channel Three-hour Release
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|GWOSC|_ has also published a data set containing instrumental sensor data
in a three-hour window around |GW170814|_.
These data cannot be loaded using :meth:`TimeSeries.fetch_open_data`,
but can be loaded using :meth:`TimeSeries.get`
(or :meth:`TimeSeriesDict.get`), by specifying `host="losc-nds.ligo.org"`.
For more details, see :ref:`gwpy-timeseries-get`.