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WIP: Change default distance when using margdist

For an 3G study I'm working on I wanted to use the --margdist option. But my error output files are filling up with lines like

XLAL Error - LALInferenceMarginalDistanceLogLikelihood (LALInferenceLikelihood.c:1355): warning: Optimal SNR 255874.745891 exceeded pmax 100000.000000

This since when using the distanceMarginalisedLikelihood (which removes the logdistance as a varied/sampled parameter) uses a default distance of 1 Mpc for the WF calculation.

I'd suggest changing this default to 100 Mpc which should reduce the cases where the OptimalSNR becomes ridiculously big (setting loglikelihood=-INF) for 3G studies. It's also a reasonable number for use in current O3 analyses since LIGO detectors now are both at that range for effectively all CBC signals we think we'll be observing.

Edited by Adam Mercer

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