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The detection of gravitational waves with LIGO and Virgo requires a detailed understanding of the response of these instruments in the presence of environmental and instrumental noise. Of particular interest is the study of anomalous…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-30 Daniel George , Hongyu Shen , E. A. Huerta

The detection of gravitational waves has inaugurated the era of gravitational astronomy and opened new avenues for the multimessenger study of cosmic sources. Thanks to their sensitivity, the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo interferometers…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-05 Massimiliano Razzano , Elena Cuoco

We present a new method for the classification of transient noise signals (or glitches) in advanced gravitational-wave interferometers. The method uses learned dictionaries (a supervised machine learning algorithm) for signal denoising, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-22 Miquel Llorens-Monteagudo , Alejandro Torres-Forné , José A. Font , Antonio Marquina

(abridged for arXiv) With the first direct detection of gravitational waves, the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) has initiated a new field of astronomy by providing an alternate means of sensing the…

We investigate the use of Convolutional Neural Networks (including the modern ConvNeXt network family) to classify transient noise signals (i.e.~glitches) and gravitational waves in data from the Advanced LIGO detectors. First, we use…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-28 Tiago S. Fernandes , Samuel J. Vieira , Antonio Onofre , Juan Calderón Bustillo , Alejandro Torres-Forné , José A. Font

Gravitational-wave detectors are affected by short-duration non-Gaussian noise transients, commonly referred to as glitches, which can obscure astrophysical signals and complicate downstream analyses. While recent work has demonstrated the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-13 Rudhresh Manoharan , Gerald Cleaver

The LIGO observatories detect gravitational waves through monitoring changes in the detectors' length down to below $10^{-19}$\,$m/\sqrt{Hz}$ variation---a small fraction of the size of the atoms that make up the detector. To achieve this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-27 Robert E. Colgan , K. Rainer Corley , Yenson Lau , Imre Bartos , John N. Wright , Zsuzsa Marka , Szabolcs Marka

Data streams of gravitational-wave detectors are polluted by transient noise features, or "glitches", of instrumental and environmental origin. In this work, we investigate the use of total-variation methods and learned dictionaries to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-15 Alejandro Torres-Forné , Elena Cuoco , José A. Font , Antonio Marquina

LIGO interferometer is considered the most sensitive and complicated gravitational experimental equipment ever built. Its main objective is to detect the gravitational wave from the strongest events in the universe by observing if the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-10 Reymond Mesuga , Brian James Bayanay

Understanding the noise in gravitational-wave detectors is central to detecting and interpreting gravitational-wave signals. Glitches are transient, non-Gaussian noise features that can have a range of environmental and instrumental…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-23 J. Glanzer , S. Banagiri , S. B. Coughlin , S. Soni , M. Zevin , C. P. L. Berry , O. Patane , S. Bahaadini , N. Rohani , K. Crowston , V. Kalogera , C. Østerlund , A. Katsaggelos

The observation of gravitational waves is hindered by the presence of transient noise (glitches). We study data from the third observing run of the Advanced LIGO detectors, and identify new glitch classes. Using training sets assembled by…

Transient noise artifacts, or glitches, fundamentally limit the sensitivity of gravitational-wave (GW) interferometers and can mimic true astrophysical signals, particularly the short-duration intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) mergers.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-29 Suyash Deshmukh , Chayan Chatterjee , Abigail Petulante , Tabata Aira Ferreira , Karan Jani

Transient noise (glitches) in LIGO data hinders the detection of gravitational waves (GW). The Gravity Spy project has categorized these noise events into various classes. With the O3 run, there is the inclusion of two additional noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Divyansh Srivastava , Andrzej Niedzielski

The first successful detection of gravitational waves by ground-based observatories, such as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), marked a breakthrough in our comprehension of the Universe. However, due to the…

Non-cosmic, non-Gaussian disturbances known as "glitches", show up in gravitational-wave data of the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, or aLIGO. In this paper, we propose a deep multi-view convolutional neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Sara Bahaadini , Neda Rohani , Scott Coughlin , Michael Zevin , Vicky Kalogera , Aggelos K Katsaggelos

Gravitational wave bursts are transient signals distinct from compact binary mergers that arise from a wide variety of astrophysical phenomena. Because most of these phenomena are poorly modeled, the use of traditional search methods such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-18 Vincent Boudart

In this paper, leveraging the capabilities of neural networks for modeling the non-linearities that exist in the data, we propose several models that can project data into a low dimensional, discriminative, and smooth manifold. The proposed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-30 Sara Bahaadini , Yunan Wu , Scott Coughlin , Michael Zevin , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

The observation of gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences by LIGO and Virgo has begun a new era in astronomy. A critical challenge in making detections is determining whether loud transient features in the data are caused by…

The recent Nobel-prize-winning detections of gravitational waves from merging black holes and the subsequent detection of the collision of two neutron stars in coincidence with electromagnetic observations have inaugurated a new era of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-06 Daniel George , E. A. Huerta

Detection and classification of transients in data from gravitational wave detectors are crucial for efficient searches for true astrophysical events and identification of noise sources. We present a hybrid method for classification of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-07 Nikhil Mukund , Sheelu Abraham , Shivaraj Kandhasamy , Sanjit Mitra , Ninan Sajeeth Philip
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