Ben McKallip

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Results 2 issues of Ben McKallip

Fixes bug with filter.matchedfilter.optimized_match

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This PR fixes a bug in filter.matchedfilter.optimized_match that causes the return of incorrect match values. The code originally did not respect the minimization bounds, causing local minima to be incorrectly...

Extreme discontinuities in optimized_match that are not present in match

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When calculating the mismatch between waves, discontinuities in the match value can occur when using pycbc.filter.matchedfilter.optimized_match that are not present when using match. Specifically, the research I'm doing is investigating...