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The gravitational-wave candidate event database (GraCEDb) is a prototype system to organize candidate events from gravitational-wave searches and to provide an environment to record information about follow-ups.

A simple client tool is provided in the gracedb project which can submit a candidate event and query the event database. The client is a standalone Python script and will run using only standard Python libraries.

You can read about using the service at the Howto page. More details are available at the Project page.

To receive email alerts when GraCEDb events are created, sign up on the gracedb mailing list or set up your own alert under the Options menu item.
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