Adding LIGO-Aundha coordinates
Now that the LIGO-India (Aundha) project is approved and the coordinates are public, I wanted to implement these in LAL.
A draft of the changes can be found in the draft gitlab branch, and a summary of current changes to the code can be found here.
This is still by all means work in progress and there are some pipeline failures, but I have the following questions.
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Currently, LIGO India (old coordinates) is implemented in LAL as I1, whereas the new name is supposed to be A1. However A1 is already in use for the (defunct, AFAIK) ALLEGRO detector, and hence there is duplication. What would be the right thing to do in this case? Should I assign a different name to ALLEGRO, or do away with it altogether, or something else entirely?
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Another inconsistency that I noticed is that LIGO India is still referred to as LIO (LIGO India Observatory) instead of LAO (LIGO Aundha Observatory). Should this change be made, or should I leave LIO as is?
Tagging some people who can contribute to this discussion: @bala.iyer, @shivaraj.kandhasamy, @sendhil.raja, @brian.oreilly.