11.4.19. astroML.datasets.fetch_LIGO_large

astroML.datasets.fetch_LIGO_large(data_home=None, download_if_missing=True)[source]

Loader for LIGO large dataset

Parameters
data_homeoptional, default=None

Specify another download and cache folder for the datasets. By default all astroML data is stored in ‘~/astroML_data’.

download_if_missingoptional, default=True

If False, raise a IOError if the data is not locally available instead of trying to download the data from the source site.

Returns
datandarray
dtfloat

data represents ~2000s of amplitude data from LIGO hanford; dt is the time spacing between measurements in seconds.