Testing Data Cuts for Updated Gravitational Wave Triggered Searches

Gravitational waves have the potential to lead to many new discoveries about the nature of the universe. One area of inquiry in particular is a correlation between gamma ray bursts and gravitational waves. The LIGO-Virgo collaboration is upgrading the analysis pipeline used for coherent, modelled searches of gravitational waves associated with gamma ray burst events, known as PyGRB. The purpose of this project is to reimplement a set of data quality tests in the pipeline, called chi-squared tests, that help distinguish signals from transient noise. Next, the effectiveness of these tests and the computational cost are being reevaluated in the new implementation. Overall, this project will finally be used to determine the relative cost to benefit ratio of these tests and whether they will be used for analyses in the upcoming fourth observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo.