Exemplo n.º 1
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/**
 * Return (and compute if not done so yet) the total number of Doppler templates
 * of the DopplerScan \a scan
 */
REAL8
XLALNumDopplerTemplates ( DopplerFullScanState *scan)
{
  if ( ! scan->numTemplates )   /* not pre-computed already ? */
    {
      switch ( scan->gridType )
        {
        /* case GRID_METRIC_LATTICE: */
        /*   LogPrintf ( LOG_DEBUG, "Now counting number of templates in lattice ... "); */
        /*   scan->numTemplates = XLALCountLatticeTemplates ( scan->latticeScan ); */
        /*   LogPrintfVerbatim( LOG_DEBUG, " done. (%.0f)\n", scan->numTemplates ); */
        /*   break; */

        case GRID_SPINDOWN_SQUARE: /* square parameter space */
        case GRID_SPINDOWN_AGEBRK: /* age-braking index parameter space */
          LogPrintf(LOG_DEBUG, "Counting spindown lattice templates ... ");
          scan->numTemplates = (REAL8)XLALTotalLatticeTilingPoints(scan->spindownTilingItr);
          LogPrintfVerbatim(LOG_DEBUG, "%0.0f\n", scan->numTemplates);
          break;

        default:
          /* FIXME: not implemented yet */
          LogPrintf ( LOG_NORMAL, "template counting not implemented yet for gridType=%d!\n", scan->gridType );
          return -1;
          break;
        } /* switch() */
    } /* ! numTemplates */

  return scan->numTemplates;

} /* XLALNumDopplerTemplates() */
Exemplo n.º 2
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/**
 * Load all SFTs according to user-input, returns multi-SFT vector.
 * \return cfg:
 * Returns 'effective' range of SFT-bins [firstBin, lastBin], which which the PSD will be estimated:
 * - if the user input {fStart, fBand} then these are loaded from SFTs and directly translated into bins
 * - if user input {Freq, FreqBand}, we load a wider frequency-band ADDING running-median/2 on either side
 * from the SFTs, and firstBind, lastBin correspond to {Freq,FreqBand} (rounded to closest bins)
 * Also returns the 'data-segment' for which SFTs were loaded
 *
 */
MultiSFTVector *
XLALReadSFTs ( ConfigVariables_t *cfg,		/**< [out] return derived configuration info (firstBin, lastBin, segment) */
               const UserVariables_t *uvar	/**< [in] complete user-input */
               )
{
  SFTCatalog *catalog = NULL;
  SFTConstraints XLAL_INIT_DECL(constraints);
  LIGOTimeGPS startTimeGPS = {0,0}, endTimeGPS = {0,0};
  LIGOTimeGPSVector *inputTimeStampsVector = NULL;

  /* check input */
  if ( !uvar || !uvar->inputData ) {
    XLALPrintError ("%s: invalid NULL input 'uvar' or 'uvar->inputData'\n", __func__ );
    XLAL_ERROR_NULL ( XLAL_EINVAL );
  }
  if ( !cfg ) {
    XLALPrintError ("%s: invalid NULL input 'cfg'", __func__ );
    XLAL_ERROR_NULL ( XLAL_EINVAL );
  }

  /* set detector constraint */
  if ( XLALUserVarWasSet ( &uvar->IFO ) )
    constraints.detector = uvar->IFO;
  else
    constraints.detector = NULL;

  if ( XLALUserVarWasSet( &uvar->startTime ) ) {
    XLALGPSSetREAL8 ( &startTimeGPS, uvar->startTime);
    constraints.minStartTime = &startTimeGPS;
  }

  if ( XLALUserVarWasSet( &uvar->endTime ) ) {
    XLALGPSSetREAL8 ( &endTimeGPS, uvar->endTime);
    constraints.maxStartTime = &endTimeGPS;
  }

  if ( XLALUserVarWasSet( &uvar->timeStampsFile ) ) {
    if ( (inputTimeStampsVector = XLALReadTimestampsFile ( uvar->timeStampsFile )) == NULL )
      XLAL_ERROR_NULL ( XLAL_EFUNC );

    constraints.timestamps = inputTimeStampsVector;
  }

  /* get sft catalog */
  LogPrintf ( LOG_DEBUG, "Finding all SFTs to load ... ");
  if ( ( catalog = XLALSFTdataFind ( uvar->inputData, &constraints) ) == NULL ) {
    XLALPrintError ("%s: XLALSFTdataFind() failed with xlalErrno = %d\n", __func__, xlalErrno );
    XLAL_ERROR_NULL ( XLAL_EFAILED );
  }
  if ( (catalog == NULL) || (catalog->length == 0) ) {
    XLALPrintError ("%s: Unable to match any SFTs with pattern '%s'\n", __func__, uvar->inputData );
    XLAL_ERROR_NULL ( XLAL_EFAILED );
  }
  LogPrintfVerbatim ( LOG_DEBUG, "done (found %i SFTs).\n", catalog->length);

  /* now we can free the inputTimeStampsVector */
  if ( inputTimeStampsVector )
    XLALDestroyTimestampVector ( inputTimeStampsVector );

  /* ----- some user-input consistency checks */
  BOOLEAN have_fStart   = XLALUserVarWasSet ( &uvar->fStart );
  BOOLEAN have_Freq     = XLALUserVarWasSet ( &uvar->Freq );
  BOOLEAN have_fBand    = XLALUserVarWasSet ( &uvar->fBand );
  BOOLEAN have_FreqBand = XLALUserVarWasSet ( &uvar->FreqBand );
  if ( have_fStart && have_Freq ) {
    XLALPrintError ("%s: use only one of --fStart OR --Freq (see --help)\n", __func__ );
    XLAL_ERROR_NULL ( XLAL_EINVAL );
  }
  if ( have_fBand && have_FreqBand ) {
    XLALPrintError ("%s: use only one of --fBand OR --FreqBand (see --help)\n", __func__ );
    XLAL_ERROR_NULL ( XLAL_EINVAL );
  }
  if ( ( have_fStart && have_FreqBand ) || ( have_Freq && have_fBand ) ) {
    XLALPrintError ("%s: don't mix {--fStart,--fBand} with {--Freq,--FreqBand} inputs (see --help)\n", __func__ );
    XLAL_ERROR_NULL ( XLAL_EINVAL );
  }
  /* ---------- figure out the right frequency-band to read from the SFTs, depending on user-input ----- */
  REAL8 fMin, fMax;
  UINT4 binsOffset; /* rngmed bin offset from start and end */
  UINT4 binsBand=0; /* width of physical FreqBand in bins */
  if ( have_Freq )
    {
      REAL8 dFreq = catalog->data[0].header.deltaF;
      binsOffset = uvar->blocksRngMed / 2 + 1;	/* truncates down plus add one bin extra safety! */
      binsBand   = ceil ( (uvar->FreqBand - 1e-9) / dFreq ) + 1; /* round up ! */

      REAL8 rngmedSideBand = binsOffset * dFreq;

      fMin = uvar->Freq - rngmedSideBand;
      fMax = uvar->Freq + uvar->FreqBand + rngmedSideBand;
    }
  else	/* NOTE: if no user-input on freq-band, we fall back to defaults on {fStart, fBand} */
    {
      fMin = uvar->fStart;
      fMax = uvar->fStart + uvar->fBand;
      binsOffset = 0;	/* no truncation of rngmed sidebands */
    }

  /* ----- figure out the data-segment span from the user-input and SFT-catalog ----- */
  /* if used passed these, then 'startTimeGPS' and 'endTimeGPS' are already set */
  if ( startTimeGPS.gpsSeconds == 0 )
    startTimeGPS = catalog->data[0].header.epoch;
  if ( endTimeGPS.gpsSeconds == 0 )
    endTimeGPS = catalog->data[catalog->length-1].header.epoch;
  /* SFT 'constraints' only refer to SFT *start-times*, for segment we need the end-time */
  REAL8 Tsft = 1.0 / catalog->data[0].header.deltaF;
  XLALGPSAdd ( &endTimeGPS, Tsft );

  /* ---------- read the sfts ---------- */
  LogPrintf (LOG_DEBUG, "Loading all SFTs ... ");
  MultiSFTVector *multi_sfts;
  if ( ( multi_sfts = XLALLoadMultiSFTs ( catalog, fMin, fMax ) ) == NULL ) {
    XLALPrintError ("%s: XLALLoadMultiSFTs( %f, %f ) failed with xlalErrno = %d\n", __func__, fMin, fMax, xlalErrno );
    XLAL_ERROR_NULL ( XLAL_EFUNC );
  }
  XLALDestroySFTCatalog ( catalog );
  LogPrintfVerbatim ( LOG_DEBUG, "done.\n");
  /* ---------- end loading SFTs ---------- */

  /* figure out effective PSD bin-boundaries for user */
  UINT4 numBins = multi_sfts->data[0]->data[0].data->length;
  INT4 bin0, bin1;
  if ( have_Freq )
    {
      bin0 = 0 + binsOffset;
      bin1 = bin0 + binsBand - 1;
    }
  else	/* output all bins loaded from SFTs (includes rngmed-sidebands) */
    {
      bin0 = 0;
      bin1 = numBins - 1;
    }

  /* return results */
  cfg->firstBin = (UINT4) bin0;
  cfg->lastBin = (UINT4) bin1;
  cfg->dataSegment.start = startTimeGPS;
  cfg->dataSegment.end   = endTimeGPS;

  XLALPrintInfo ("%s: loaded SFTs have %d bins, effective PSD output band is [%d, %d]\n", __func__, numBins, bin0, bin1 );

  return multi_sfts;

} /* XLALReadSFTs() */
Exemplo n.º 3
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/*============================================================
 * FUNCTION definitions
 *============================================================*/
int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  static LALStatus       status;  /* LALStatus pointer */
  UserVariables_t XLAL_INIT_DECL(uvar);
  ConfigVariables_t XLAL_INIT_DECL(cfg);

  UINT4 k, numBins, numIFOs, maxNumSFTs, X, alpha;
  REAL8 Freq0, dFreq, normPSD;
  UINT4 finalBinSize, finalBinStep, finalNumBins;

  REAL8Vector *overSFTs = NULL; /* one frequency bin over SFTs */
  REAL8Vector *overIFOs = NULL; /* one frequency bin over IFOs */
  REAL8Vector *finalPSD = NULL; /* math. operation PSD over SFTs and IFOs */
  REAL8Vector *finalNormSFT = NULL; /* normalised SFT power */

  vrbflg = 1;	/* verbose error-messages */

  /* set LAL error-handler */
  lal_errhandler = LAL_ERR_EXIT;

  /* register and read user variables */
  if (initUserVars(argc, argv, &uvar) != XLAL_SUCCESS)
    return EXIT_FAILURE;

  MultiSFTVector *inputSFTs = NULL;
  if ( ( inputSFTs = XLALReadSFTs ( &cfg, &uvar ) ) == NULL )
    {
      XLALPrintError ("Call to XLALReadSFTs() failed with xlalErrno = %d\n", xlalErrno );
      return EXIT_FAILURE;
    }

  /* clean sfts if required */
  if ( XLALUserVarWasSet( &uvar.linefiles ) )
    {
      RandomParams *randPar=NULL;
      FILE *fpRand=NULL;
      INT4 seed, ranCount;

      if ( (fpRand = fopen("/dev/urandom", "r")) == NULL ) {
	fprintf(stderr,"Error in opening /dev/urandom" );
	return EXIT_FAILURE;
      }

      if ( (ranCount = fread(&seed, sizeof(seed), 1, fpRand)) != 1 ) {
	fprintf(stderr,"Error in getting random seed" );
	return EXIT_FAILURE;
      }

      LAL_CALL ( LALCreateRandomParams (&status, &randPar, seed), &status );

      LAL_CALL( LALRemoveKnownLinesInMultiSFTVector ( &status, inputSFTs, uvar.maxBinsClean, uvar.blocksRngMed, uvar.linefiles, randPar), &status);
      LAL_CALL ( LALDestroyRandomParams (&status, &randPar), &status);
      fclose(fpRand);
    } /* end cleaning */

  LogPrintf (LOG_DEBUG, "Computing spectrogram and PSD ... ");

  /* get power running-median rngmed[ |data|^2 ] from SFTs */
  MultiPSDVector *multiPSD = NULL;
  XLAL_CHECK_MAIN( ( multiPSD = XLALNormalizeMultiSFTVect ( inputSFTs, uvar.blocksRngMed, NULL ) ) != NULL, XLAL_EFUNC);
  /* restrict this PSD to just the "physical" band if requested using {--Freq, --FreqBand} */
  if ( ( XLALCropMultiPSDandSFTVectors ( multiPSD, inputSFTs, cfg.firstBin, cfg.lastBin )) != XLAL_SUCCESS ) {
    XLALPrintError ("%s: XLALCropMultiPSDandSFTVectors (inputPSD, inputSFTs, %d, %d) failed with xlalErrno = %d\n", __func__, cfg.firstBin, cfg.lastBin, xlalErrno );
    return EXIT_FAILURE;
  }

  /* start frequency and frequency spacing */
  Freq0 = multiPSD->data[0]->data[0].f0;
  dFreq = multiPSD->data[0]->data[0].deltaF;

  /* number of raw bins in final PSD */
  numBins = multiPSD->data[0]->data[0].data->length;
  if ( (finalPSD = XLALCreateREAL8Vector ( numBins )) == NULL ) {
    LogPrintf (LOG_CRITICAL, "Out of memory!\n");
    return EXIT_FAILURE;
  }

  /* number of IFOs */
  numIFOs = multiPSD->length;
  if ( (overIFOs = XLALCreateREAL8Vector ( numIFOs )) == NULL ) {
    LogPrintf (LOG_CRITICAL, "Out of memory!\n");
    return EXIT_FAILURE;
  }

  /* maximum number of SFTs */
  maxNumSFTs = 0;
  for (X = 0; X < numIFOs; ++X) {
    maxNumSFTs = GSL_MAX(maxNumSFTs, multiPSD->data[X]->length);
  }
  if ( (overSFTs = XLALCreateREAL8Vector ( maxNumSFTs )) == NULL ) {
    LogPrintf (LOG_CRITICAL, "Out of memory!\n");
    return EXIT_FAILURE;
  }

  /* normalize rngmd(power) to get proper *single-sided* PSD: Sn = (2/Tsft) rngmed[|data|^2]] */
  normPSD = 2.0 * dFreq;

  /* loop over frequency bins in final PSD */
  for (k = 0; k < numBins; ++k) {

    /* loop over IFOs */
    for (X = 0; X < numIFOs; ++X) {

      /* number of SFTs for this IFO */
      UINT4 numSFTs = multiPSD->data[X]->length;

      /* copy PSD frequency bins and normalise multiPSD for later use */
      for (alpha = 0; alpha < numSFTs; ++alpha) {
	multiPSD->data[X]->data[alpha].data->data[k] *= normPSD;
	overSFTs->data[alpha] = multiPSD->data[X]->data[alpha].data->data[k];
      }

      /* compute math. operation over SFTs for this IFO */
      overIFOs->data[X] = math_op(overSFTs->data, numSFTs, uvar.PSDmthopSFTs);
      if ( isnan( overIFOs->data[X] ) )
        XLAL_ERROR ( EXIT_FAILURE, "Found Not-A-Number in overIFOs->data[X=%d] = NAN ... exiting\n", X );

    } /* for IFOs X */

    /* compute math. operation over IFOs for this frequency */
    finalPSD->data[k] = math_op(overIFOs->data, numIFOs, uvar.PSDmthopIFOs);
    if ( isnan ( finalPSD->data[k] ) )
      XLAL_ERROR ( EXIT_FAILURE, "Found Not-A-Number in finalPSD->data[k=%d] = NAN ... exiting\n", k );

  } /* for freq bins k */
  LogPrintfVerbatim ( LOG_DEBUG, "done.\n");

  /* compute normalised SFT power */
  if (uvar.outputNormSFT) {
    LogPrintf (LOG_DEBUG, "Computing normalised SFT power ... ");

    if ( (finalNormSFT = XLALCreateREAL8Vector ( numBins )) == NULL ) {
      LogPrintf (LOG_CRITICAL, "Out of memory!\n");
      return EXIT_FAILURE;
    }

    /* loop over frequency bins in SFTs */
    for (k = 0; k < numBins; ++k) {

      /* loop over IFOs */
      for (X = 0; X < numIFOs; ++X) {

	/* number of SFTs for this IFO */
	UINT4 numSFTs = inputSFTs->data[X]->length;

	/* compute SFT power */
	for (alpha = 0; alpha < numSFTs; ++alpha) {
	  COMPLEX8 bin = inputSFTs->data[X]->data[alpha].data->data[k];
	  overSFTs->data[alpha] = crealf(bin)*crealf(bin) + cimagf(bin)*cimagf(bin);
	}

	/* compute math. operation over SFTs for this IFO */
	overIFOs->data[X] = math_op(overSFTs->data, numSFTs, uvar.nSFTmthopSFTs);
	if ( isnan ( overIFOs->data[X] ))
          XLAL_ERROR ( EXIT_FAILURE, "Found Not-A-Number in overIFOs->data[X=%d] = NAN ... exiting\n", X );

      } /* over IFOs */

      /* compute math. operation over IFOs for this frequency */
      finalNormSFT->data[k] = math_op(overIFOs->data, numIFOs, uvar.nSFTmthopIFOs);
      if ( isnan( finalNormSFT->data[k] ) )
        XLAL_ERROR ( EXIT_FAILURE, "Found Not-A-Number in bin finalNormSFT->data[k=%d] = NAN ... exiting\n", k );

    } /* over freq bins */
    LogPrintfVerbatim ( LOG_DEBUG, "done.\n");
  }

  /* output spectrograms */
  if ( uvar.outputSpectBname ) {
    LAL_CALL ( LALfwriteSpectrograms ( &status, uvar.outputSpectBname, multiPSD ), &status );
  }

  /* ---------- if user requested it, output complete MultiPSDVector over IFOs X, timestamps and freq-bins into ASCI file(s) */
  if ( uvar.dumpMultiPSDVector ) {
    if ( XLALDumpMultiPSDVector ( uvar.outputPSD, multiPSD ) != XLAL_SUCCESS ) {
      XLALPrintError ("%s: XLALDumpMultiPSDVector() failed, xlalErrnor = %d\n", __func__, xlalErrno );
      return EXIT_FAILURE;
    }
  } /* if uvar.dumpMultiPSDVector */

  /* ----- if requested, compute data-quality factor 'Q' -------------------- */
  if ( uvar.outputQ )
    {
      REAL8FrequencySeries *Q;
      if ( (Q = XLALComputeSegmentDataQ ( multiPSD, cfg.dataSegment )) == NULL ) {
        XLALPrintError ("%s: XLALComputeSegmentDataQ() failed with xlalErrno = %d\n", __func__, xlalErrno );
        return EXIT_FAILURE;
      }
      if ( XLAL_SUCCESS != XLALWriteREAL8FrequencySeries_to_file ( Q, uvar.outputQ ) ) {
        return EXIT_FAILURE;
      }
      XLALDestroyREAL8FrequencySeries ( Q );
    } /* if outputQ */

  /* ---------- BINNING if requested ---------- */
  /* work out bin size */
  if (XLALUserVarWasSet(&uvar.binSize)) {
    finalBinSize = uvar.binSize;
  }
  else if (XLALUserVarWasSet(&uvar.binSizeHz)) {
    finalBinSize = (UINT4)floor(uvar.binSizeHz / dFreq + 0.5); /* round to nearest bin */
  }
  else {
    finalBinSize = 1;
  }

  /* work out bin step */
  if (XLALUserVarWasSet(&uvar.binStep)) {
    finalBinStep = uvar.binStep;
  }
  else if (XLALUserVarWasSet(&uvar.binStepHz)) {
    finalBinStep = (UINT4)floor(uvar.binStepHz / dFreq + 0.5); /* round to nearest bin */
  }
  else {
    finalBinStep = finalBinSize;
  }

  /* work out total number of bins */
  finalNumBins = (UINT4)floor((numBins - finalBinSize) / finalBinStep) + 1;

  /* write final PSD to file */
  if (XLALUserVarWasSet(&uvar.outputPSD)) {

    FILE *fpOut = NULL;

    if ((fpOut = fopen(uvar.outputPSD, "wb")) == NULL) {
      LogPrintf ( LOG_CRITICAL, "Unable to open output file %s for writing...exiting \n", uvar.outputPSD );
      return EXIT_FAILURE;
    }

    /* write header info in comments */
    if ( XLAL_SUCCESS != XLALOutputVersionString ( fpOut, 0 ) )
      XLAL_ERROR ( XLAL_EFUNC );

    /* write the command-line */
    for (int a = 0; a < argc; a++)
      fprintf(fpOut,"%%%% argv[%d]: '%s'\n", a, argv[a]);

    /* write column headings */
    fprintf(fpOut,"%%%% columns:\n%%%% FreqBinStart");
    if (uvar.outFreqBinEnd)
      fprintf(fpOut," FreqBinEnd");
    fprintf(fpOut," PSD");
    if (uvar.outputNormSFT)
      fprintf(fpOut," normSFTpower");
    fprintf(fpOut,"\n");

    LogPrintf(LOG_DEBUG, "Printing PSD to file ... ");
    for (k = 0; k < finalNumBins; ++k) {
      UINT4 b = k * finalBinStep;

      REAL8 f0 = Freq0 + b * dFreq;
      REAL8 f1 = f0 + finalBinStep * dFreq;
      fprintf(fpOut, "%f", f0);
      if (uvar.outFreqBinEnd)
	fprintf(fpOut, "   %f", f1);

      REAL8 psd = math_op(&(finalPSD->data[b]), finalBinSize, uvar.PSDmthopBins);
      if ( isnan ( psd ))
        XLAL_ERROR ( EXIT_FAILURE, "Found Not-A-Number in psd[k=%d] = NAN ... exiting\n", k );

      fprintf(fpOut, "   %e", psd);

      if (uvar.outputNormSFT) {
	REAL8 nsft = math_op(&(finalNormSFT->data[b]), finalBinSize, uvar.nSFTmthopBins);
	if ( isnan ( nsft ))
          XLAL_ERROR ( EXIT_FAILURE, "Found Not-A-Number in nsft[k=%d] = NAN ... exiting\n", k );

	fprintf(fpOut, "   %f", nsft);
      }

      fprintf(fpOut, "\n");
    } // k < finalNumBins
    LogPrintfVerbatim ( LOG_DEBUG, "done.\n");

    fclose(fpOut);

  }

  /* we are now done with the psd */
  XLALDestroyMultiPSDVector  ( multiPSD);
  XLALDestroyMultiSFTVector  ( inputSFTs);

  XLALDestroyUserVars();

  XLALDestroyREAL8Vector ( overSFTs );
  XLALDestroyREAL8Vector ( overIFOs );
  XLALDestroyREAL8Vector ( finalPSD );
  XLALDestroyREAL8Vector ( finalNormSFT );

  LALCheckMemoryLeaks();

  return EXIT_SUCCESS;

} /* main() */
Exemplo n.º 4
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/** Initialized Fstat-code: handle user-input and set everything up. */
void
InitPFS ( LALStatus *status, ConfigVariables *cfg, const UserInput_t *uvar )
{
  static const char *fn = "InitPFS()";

  SFTCatalog *catalog = NULL;
  SFTConstraints constraints = empty_SFTConstraints;
  SkyPosition skypos;

  LIGOTimeGPS startTime, endTime;
  REAL8 duration, Tsft;
  LIGOTimeGPS minStartTimeGPS, maxEndTimeGPS;

  EphemerisData *edat = NULL;		    	/* ephemeris data */
  MultiAMCoeffs *multiAMcoef = NULL;
  MultiPSDVector *multiRngmed = NULL;
  MultiNoiseWeights *multiNoiseWeights = NULL;
  MultiSFTVector *multiSFTs = NULL;	    	/* multi-IFO SFT-vectors */
  MultiDetectorStateSeries *multiDetStates = NULL; /* pos, vel and LMSTs for detector at times t_i */
  UINT4 X, i;


  INITSTATUS(status);
  ATTATCHSTATUSPTR (status);

  { /* Check user-input consistency */
    BOOLEAN have_h0, have_cosi, have_cosiota, have_Ap, have_Ac;
    REAL8 cosi = 0;

    have_h0 = LALUserVarWasSet ( &uvar->h0 );
    have_cosi = LALUserVarWasSet ( &uvar->cosi );
    have_cosiota = LALUserVarWasSet ( &uvar->cosiota );
    have_Ap = LALUserVarWasSet ( &uvar->aPlus );
    have_Ac = LALUserVarWasSet ( &uvar->aCross );

    /* ----- handle cosi/cosiota ambiguity */
    if ( (have_cosi && have_cosiota)  ) {
      LogPrintf (LOG_CRITICAL, "Need EITHER --cosi [preferred] OR --cosiota [deprecated]!\n");
      ABORT ( status, PREDICTFSTAT_EINPUT, PREDICTFSTAT_MSGEINPUT );
    }
    if ( have_cosiota ) {
      cosi = uvar->cosiota;
      have_cosi = TRUE;
    }
    else if ( have_cosi ) {
      cosi = uvar->cosi;
      have_cosi = TRUE;
    }

    /* ----- handle {h0,cosi} || {aPlus,aCross} freedom ----- */
    if ( ( have_h0 && !have_cosi ) || ( !have_h0 && have_cosi ) )
      {
	LogPrintf (LOG_CRITICAL, "Need both (h0, cosi) to specify signal!\n");
	ABORT ( status, PREDICTFSTAT_EINPUT, PREDICTFSTAT_MSGEINPUT );
      }
    if ( ( have_Ap && !have_Ac) || ( !have_Ap && have_Ac ) )
      {
	LogPrintf (LOG_CRITICAL, "Need both (aPlus, aCross) to specify signal!\n");
	ABORT ( status, PREDICTFSTAT_EINPUT, PREDICTFSTAT_MSGEINPUT );
      }
    if ( have_h0 && have_Ap )
      {
	LogPrintf (LOG_CRITICAL, "Overdetermined: specify EITHER (h0,cosi) OR (aPlus,aCross)!\n");
	ABORT ( status, PREDICTFSTAT_EINPUT, PREDICTFSTAT_MSGEINPUT );
      }
    /* ----- internally we always use Aplus, Across */
    if ( have_h0 )
      {
	cfg->aPlus = 0.5 * uvar->h0 * ( 1.0 + SQ( cosi) );
	cfg->aCross = uvar->h0 * uvar->cosi;
      }
    else
      {
	cfg->aPlus = uvar->aPlus;
	cfg->aCross = uvar->aCross;
      }
  }/* check user-input */


  /* ----- prepare SFT-reading ----- */
  if ( LALUserVarWasSet ( &uvar->IFO ) )
    if ( (constraints.detector = XLALGetChannelPrefix ( uvar->IFO )) == NULL ) {
      ABORT ( status,  PREDICTFSTAT_EINPUT,  PREDICTFSTAT_MSGEINPUT);
    }

  minStartTimeGPS.gpsSeconds = uvar->minStartTime;
  minStartTimeGPS.gpsNanoSeconds = 0;
  maxEndTimeGPS.gpsSeconds = uvar->maxEndTime;
  maxEndTimeGPS.gpsNanoSeconds = 0;
  constraints.minStartTime = &minStartTimeGPS;
  constraints.maxEndTime = &maxEndTimeGPS;

  /* ----- get full SFT-catalog of all matching (multi-IFO) SFTs */
  LogPrintf (LOG_DEBUG, "Finding all SFTs to load ... ");
  TRY ( LALSFTdataFind ( status->statusPtr, &catalog, uvar->DataFiles, &constraints ), status);
  LogPrintfVerbatim (LOG_DEBUG, "done. (found %d SFTs)\n", catalog->length);
  if ( constraints.detector )
    LALFree ( constraints.detector );

  if ( catalog->length == 0 )
    {
      LogPrintf (LOG_CRITICAL, "No matching SFTs for pattern '%s'!\n", uvar->DataFiles );
      ABORT ( status,  PREDICTFSTAT_EINPUT,  PREDICTFSTAT_MSGEINPUT);
    }

  /* ----- deduce start- and end-time of the observation spanned by the data */
  {
    GV.numSFTs = catalog->length;	/* total number of SFTs */
    Tsft = 1.0 / catalog->data[0].header.deltaF;
    startTime = catalog->data[0].header.epoch;
    endTime   = catalog->data[GV.numSFTs-1].header.epoch;
    XLALGPSAdd(&endTime, Tsft);
    duration = GPS2REAL8(endTime) - GPS2REAL8 (startTime);
  }

  { /* ----- load ephemeris-data ----- */
    edat = XLALInitBarycenter( uvar->ephemEarth, uvar->ephemSun );
    if ( !edat ) {
      XLALPrintError("XLALInitBarycenter failed: could not load Earth ephemeris '%s' and Sun ephemeris '%s'\n", uvar->ephemEarth, uvar->ephemSun);
      ABORT ( status,  PREDICTFSTAT_EINPUT,  PREDICTFSTAT_MSGEINPUT);
    }
  }

  {/* ----- load the multi-IFO SFT-vectors ----- */
    UINT4 wings = uvar->RngMedWindow/2 + 10;   /* extra frequency-bins needed for rngmed */
    REAL8 fMax = uvar->Freq + 1.0 * wings / Tsft;
    REAL8 fMin = uvar->Freq - 1.0 * wings / Tsft;

    LogPrintf (LOG_DEBUG, "Loading SFTs ... ");
    TRY ( LALLoadMultiSFTs ( status->statusPtr, &multiSFTs, catalog, fMin, fMax ), status );
    LogPrintfVerbatim (LOG_DEBUG, "done.\n");
    TRY ( LALDestroySFTCatalog ( status->statusPtr, &catalog ), status );
  }

  TRY ( LALNormalizeMultiSFTVect (status->statusPtr, &multiRngmed, multiSFTs, uvar->RngMedWindow ), status);
  TRY ( LALComputeMultiNoiseWeights (status->statusPtr, &multiNoiseWeights, multiRngmed, uvar->RngMedWindow, 0 ), status );

  /* correctly handle the --SignalOnly case:
   * set noise-weights to 1, and
   * set Sh->1 (single-sided)
   */
  if ( uvar->SignalOnly )
    {
      multiNoiseWeights->Sinv_Tsft = Tsft;
      for ( X=0; X < multiNoiseWeights->length; X ++ )
        for ( i=0; i < multiNoiseWeights->data[X]->length; i ++ )
          multiNoiseWeights->data[X]->data[i] = 1.0;
    }

  /* ----- handle transient-signal window if given ----- */
  if ( LALUserVarWasSet ( &uvar->transientWindowType ) && strcmp ( uvar->transientWindowType, "none") )
    {
      transientWindow_t transientWindow;	/**< properties of transient-signal window */
      MultiLIGOTimeGPSVector *mTS;

      if ( !strcmp ( uvar->transientWindowType, "rect" ) )
        transientWindow.type = TRANSIENT_RECTANGULAR;		/* rectangular window [t0, t0+tau] */
      else if ( !strcmp ( uvar->transientWindowType, "exp" ) )
        transientWindow.type = TRANSIENT_EXPONENTIAL;		/* exponential decay window e^[-(t-t0)/tau for t>t0, 0 otherwise */
      else
	{
	  XLALPrintError ("Illegal transient window '%s' specified: valid are 'none', 'rect' or 'exp'\n", uvar->transientWindowType);
          ABORT ( status, PREDICTFSTAT_EINPUT, PREDICTFSTAT_MSGEINPUT );
	}

      if ( LALUserVarWasSet ( &uvar->transientStartTime ) )
        transientWindow.t0 = uvar->transientStartTime;
      else
        transientWindow.t0 = XLALGPSGetREAL8( &startTime ); /* if not set, default window startTime == startTime here */

      transientWindow.tau  = uvar->transientTauDays;

      if ( (mTS = XLALExtractMultiTimestampsFromSFTs ( multiSFTs )) == NULL ) {
        XLALPrintError ("%s: failed to XLALExtractMultiTimestampsFromSFTs() from SFTs. xlalErrno = %d.\n", fn, xlalErrno );
        ABORT ( status, PREDICTFSTAT_EXLAL, PREDICTFSTAT_MSGEXLAL );
      }

      if ( XLALApplyTransientWindow2NoiseWeights ( multiNoiseWeights, mTS, transientWindow ) != XLAL_SUCCESS ) {
        XLALPrintError ("%s: XLALApplyTransientWindow2NoiseWeights() failed! xlalErrno = %d\n", fn, xlalErrno );
        ABORT ( status, PREDICTFSTAT_EXLAL, PREDICTFSTAT_MSGEXLAL );
      }

      XLALDestroyMultiTimestamps ( mTS );

    } /* apply transient window to noise-weights */


  /* ----- obtain the (multi-IFO) 'detector-state series' for all SFTs ----- */
  TRY (LALGetMultiDetectorStates( status->statusPtr, &multiDetStates, multiSFTs, edat), status );

  /* normalize skyposition: correctly map into [0,2pi]x[-pi/2,pi/2] */
  skypos.longitude = uvar->Alpha;
  skypos.latitude = uvar->Delta;
  skypos.system = COORDINATESYSTEM_EQUATORIAL;
  TRY (LALNormalizeSkyPosition ( status->statusPtr, &skypos, &skypos), status);

  TRY ( LALGetMultiAMCoeffs ( status->statusPtr, &multiAMcoef, multiDetStates, skypos ), status);
  /* noise-weighting of Antenna-patterns and compute A,B,C */
  if ( XLALWeightMultiAMCoeffs ( multiAMcoef, multiNoiseWeights ) != XLAL_SUCCESS ) {
    LogPrintf (LOG_CRITICAL, "XLALWeightMultiAMCoeffs() failed with error = %d\n\n", xlalErrno );
    ABORT ( status, PREDICTFSTAT_EXLAL, PREDICTFSTAT_MSGEXLAL );
  }

  /* OK: we only need the antenna-pattern matrix M_mu_nu */
  cfg->Mmunu = multiAMcoef->Mmunu;

  /* ----- produce a log-string describing the data-specific setup ----- */
  {
    struct tm utc;
    time_t tp;
    CHAR dateStr[512], line[512], summary[1024];
    UINT4 j, numDet;
    numDet = multiSFTs->length;
    tp = time(NULL);
    sprintf (summary, "%%%% Date: %s", asctime( gmtime( &tp ) ) );
    strcat (summary, "%% Loaded SFTs: [ " );
    for ( j=0; j < numDet; j ++ ) {
      sprintf (line, "%s:%d%s",  multiSFTs->data[j]->data->name, multiSFTs->data[j]->length,
	       (j < numDet - 1)?", ":" ]\n");
      strcat ( summary, line );
    }
    utc = *XLALGPSToUTC( &utc, (INT4)GPS2REAL8(startTime) );
    strcpy ( dateStr, asctime(&utc) );
    dateStr[ strlen(dateStr) - 1 ] = 0;
    sprintf (line, "%%%% Start GPS time tStart = %12.3f    (%s GMT)\n", GPS2REAL8(startTime), dateStr);
    strcat ( summary, line );
    sprintf (line, "%%%% Total time spanned    = %12.3f s  (%.1f hours)\n", duration, duration/3600 );
    strcat ( summary, line );

    if ( (cfg->dataSummary = LALCalloc(1, strlen(summary) + 1 )) == NULL ) {
      ABORT (status, PREDICTFSTAT_EMEM, PREDICTFSTAT_MSGEMEM);
    }
    strcpy ( cfg->dataSummary, summary );

    LogPrintfVerbatim( LOG_DEBUG, cfg->dataSummary );
  } /* write dataSummary string */

  /* free everything not needed any more */
  TRY ( LALDestroyMultiPSDVector (status->statusPtr, &multiRngmed ), status );
  TRY ( LALDestroyMultiNoiseWeights (status->statusPtr, &multiNoiseWeights ), status );
  TRY ( LALDestroyMultiSFTVector (status->statusPtr, &multiSFTs ), status );
  XLALDestroyMultiDetectorStateSeries ( multiDetStates );
  XLALDestroyMultiAMCoeffs ( multiAMcoef );

  /* Free ephemeris data */
  XLALDestroyEphemerisData (edat);

  DETATCHSTATUSPTR (status);
  RETURN (status);

} /* InitPFS() */