English
Related papers

Related papers: Deep Multi-view Models for Glitch Classification

200 papers

As of this moment, fifty gravitational waves (GW) detections have been announced, thanks to the observational efforts of the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration, working with the Advanced LIGO and the Advanced Virgo interferometers. The detection of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-30 Filip Morawski , Michał Bejger , Elena Cuoco , Luigia Petre

Glitches are non-Gaussian noise transients originating from environmental and instrumental sources that contaminate data from gravitational wave detectors. Some glitches can even mimic gravitational wave signals from compact object mergers,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-01 Tabata Aira Ferreira , Gabriela González

We present a convolutional neural network, designed in the auto-encoder configuration that can detect and denoise astrophysical gravitational waves from merging black hole binaries, orders of magnitude faster than the conventional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-05 Chinthak Murali , David Lumley

GWSkyNet-Multi is a machine learning model developed for classification of candidate gravitational-wave events detected by the LIGO and Virgo observatories. The model uses limited information released in the low-latency Open Public Alerts…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-25 Nayyer Raza , Man Leong Chan , Daryl Haggard , Ashish Mahabal , Jess McIver , Thomas C. Abbott , Eitan Buffaz , Nicholas Vieira

Data from ground-based gravitational-wave detectors contains numerous short-duration instrumental artifacts, called "glitches." The high rate of these artifacts in turn results in a significant fraction of gravitational-wave signals from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 D. Davis , T. B. Littenberg , I. M. Romero-Shaw , M. Millhouse , J. McIver , F. Di Renzo , G. Ashton

We introduce the use of deep learning ensembles for real-time, gravitational wave detection of spinning binary black hole mergers. This analysis consists of training independent neural networks that simultaneously process strain data from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-21 Wei Wei , Asad Khan , E. A. Huerta , Xiaobo Huang , Minyang Tian

Data from ground-based gravitational wave detectors are often contaminated by non-Gaussian instrumental artifacts or detector noise transients. Unbiased source property estimation relies on the ability to correctly identify and characterize…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-24 Man Leong Chan , Jess McIver , Yannick Lecoeuche , Dhatri Raghunathan , Sofía Álvarez-López , Julian Ding , Annudesh Liyanage , Raymond Ng , Heather Fong

With the advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors taking observations the detection of gravitational waves is expected within the next few years. Extracting astrophysical information from gravitational wave detections is a well-posed problem and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Tyson B. Littenberg , Jonah B. Kanner , Neil J. Cornish , Margaret Millhouse

The recent advances in Gravitational-wave astronomy have greatly accelerated the study of Multimessenger astrophysics. There is a need for the development of fast and efficient algorithms to detect non-astrophysical transients and noises…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-28 Rahul Nigam , Amit Mishra , Pranath Reddy

This work investigates the temporal distribution of glitches detected by LIGO, focusing on the morphological classification provided by the Gravity Spy project. Starting from the hypothesis that these events follow a Poisson process, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-10 Giovanna Souza Rodrigues Costa , Julio Cesar Martins , Odylio Denys Aguiar

Transient non-gaussian noise in gravitational wave detectors, commonly referred to as glitches, pose challenges for inference of the astrophysical properties of detected signals when the two are coincident in time. Current analyses aim…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-17 Katerina Chatziioannou , Neil Cornish , Marcella Wijngaarden , Tyson B. Littenberg

Low-latency gravitational-wave alerts provide the greater multi-messenger community with information about the candidate events detected by the International Gravitational-Wave Network (IGWN). Prompt release of data products such as the sky…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-19 Seiya Tsukamoto , Andrew Toivonen , Holton Griffin , Avyukt Raghuvanshi , Megan Averill , Frank Kerkow , Michael W. Coughlin , Man Leong Chan , Leo Singer

In this paper, benefiting from the strong ability of deep neural network in estimating non-linear functions, we propose a discriminative embedding function to be used as a feature extractor for clustering tasks. The trained embedding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Sara Bahaadini , Vahid Noroozi , Neda Rohani , Scott Coughlin , Michael Zevin , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

Among astrophysical sources in the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors' frequency band are rotating non-axisymmetric neutron stars emitting long-lasting, almost-monochromatic gravitational waves. Searches for these continuous…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-12 Filip Morawski , Michał Bejger , Paweł Cieciel\{a}g

Deep neural networks tend to make overconfident predictions and often require additional detectors for misclassifications, particularly for safety-critical applications. Existing detection methods usually only focus on adversarial attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Julia Lust , Alexandru P. Condurache

Central to the gravitational wave detection problem is the challenge of separating features in the data produced by astrophysical sources from features produced by the detector. Matched filtering provides an optimal solution for Gaussian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-09 Tyson B. Littenberg , Neil J. Cornish

Machine-vision-based defect classification techniques have been widely adopted for automatic quality inspection in manufacturing processes. This article describes a general framework for classifying defects from high volume data batches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Wenbo Sun , Raed Al Kontar , Judy Jin , Tzyy-Shuh Chang

Based on the prior O1-O2 observing runs, about 30% of the data collected by Advanced LIGO and Virgo in the next observing runs are expected to be single-interferometer data, i.e., they will be collected at times when only one detector in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-14 Marco Cavaglia , Sergio Gaudio , Travis Hansen , Kai Staats , Marek Szczepanczyk , Michele Zanolin

Gravitational-wave observatories become more sensitive with each observing run, increasing the number of detected gravitational-wave signals. A limiting factor in identifying these signals is the presence of transient non-Gaussian noise,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-14 Ruxandra Bondarescu , Andrew Lundgren , Ronaldas Macas

We present an algorithm for the identification of transient noise artifacts (glitches) in cross-correlation searches for long O(10s) gravitational-wave transients. The algorithm utilizes the auto-power in each detector as a discriminator…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-05 Tanner Prestegard , Eric Thrane , Nelson L. Christensen , Michael W. Coughlin , Ben Hubbert , Shivaraj Kandhasamy , Evan MacAyeal , Vuk Mandic