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The rate of single interferometer background triggers in the CBC search for H1 (above) and L1 (below), where color indicates a threshold on the detection statistic, χ2-weighted SNR. Each point represents the average rate over a 2048 second interval. The times of GW150914 and LVT151012 are indicated with vertical dashed and dot-dashed lines respectively.
