These changes create and upload external MDC events in order to regularly test the fully RAVEN pipeline. This is designed to create an external MDC event for every 2 MDC superevents, resetting every day. These joint coincidences should be able to be found by ligo-raven>=2.0 by including search='MDC' in ligo.raven.search.search().
The MR includes changes to:
- create
MDCexternal events viafirst2years_external.py - use
se_searchfield for superevent searches with new release ofligo-raven - update superevent with coinc FAR values when better coincidence is available
Edited by Brandon Piotrzkowski