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Excess transient noise artifacts, or glitches impact the data quality of ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors and impair the detection of signals produced by astrophysical sources. Mitigation of glitches is crucial for improving…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-09 Kentaro Mogushi

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

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…

The recent completion of Advanced LIGO suggests that gravitational waves (GWs) may soon be directly observed. Past searches for gravitational-wave transients have been impacted by transient noise artifacts, known as glitches, introduced…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Jonah B. Kanner , Tyson B. Littenberg , Neil Cornish , Meg Millhouse , Enia Xhakaj , Francesco Salemi , Marco Drago , Gabriele Vedovato , Sergey Klimenko

The quest to observe gravitational waves challenges our ability to discriminate signals from detector noise. This issue is especially relevant for transient gravitational waves searches with a robust eyes wide open approach, the so called…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 S. Vinciguerra , M. Drago , G. A. Prodi , S. Klimenko , C. Lazzaro , V. Necula , F. Salemi , V. Tiwari , M. C. Tringali , G. Vedovato

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 Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors have enabled the confident detection of dozens of mergers of black holes and neutron stars. However, the presence of detector noise transients (glitches) hinders the search for these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-06 Seraphim Jarov , Sarah Thiele , Siddharth Soni , Julian Ding , Jess McIver , Raymond Ng , Rikako Hatoya , Derek Davis

Quality improvement of interferometric data collected by gravitational-wave detectors such as Advanced LIGO and Virgo is mission critical for the success of gravitational-wave astrophysics. Gravitational-wave detectors are sensitive to a…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-12-14 Marco Cavaglia , Kai Staats , Teerth Gill

Gravitational waves are ripples in the space time fabric when high energy events such as black hole mergers or neutron star collisions take place. The first Gravitational Wave (GW) detection (GW150914) was made by the Laser Interferometer…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-13 Yash Chauhan

Gravitational wave (GW) detectors, such as LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA, detect faint signals from distant astrophysical events. However, their high sensitivity also makes them susceptible to background noise, which can obscure these signals.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-23 Tom Dooney , Harsh Narola , Stefano Bromuri , R. Lyana Curier , Chris Van Den Broeck , Sarah Caudill , Daniel Stanley Tan

Gravitational wave detection requires an in-depth understanding of the physical properties of gravitational wave signals, and the noise from which they are extracted. Understanding the statistical properties of noise is a complex endeavor,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-05 Wei Wei , E. A. Huerta

Transient noise glitches in gravitational-wave detector data limit the sensitivity of searches and contaminate detected signals. In this Paper, we show how glitches can be simulated using generative adversarial networks. We produce hundreds…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 Jade Powell , Ling Sun , Katinka Gereb , Paul D. Lasky , Markus Dollmann

The phenomenon of Gravitational Wave (GW) analysis has grown in popularity as technology has advanced and the process of observing gravitational waves has become more precise. Although the sensitivity and the frequency of observation of GW…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Elena-Simona Apostol , Ciprian-Octavian Truică

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

In the coming years gravitational-wave detectors will undergo a series of improvements, with an increase in their detection rate by about an order of magnitude. Routine detections of gravitational-wave signals promote novel astrophysical…

"Glitches" -- transient noise artifacts in the data collected by gravitational wave interferometers like LIGO and Virgo -- are an ever-present obstacle for the search and characterization of gravitational wave signals. With some having…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-21 Jonathan Merritt , Ben Farr , Rachel Hur , Bruce Edelman , Zoheyr Doctor

Despite achieving sensitivities capable of detecting the extremely small amplitude of gravitational waves (GWs), LIGO and Virgo detector data contain frequent bursts of non-Gaussian transient noise, commonly known as 'glitches'. Glitches…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-21 Sofia Alvarez-Lopez , Annudesh Liyanage , Julian Ding , Raymond Ng , Jess McIver

We describe a case study of translational research, applying interpretability techniques developed for computer vision to machine learning models used to search for and find gravitational waves. The models we study are trained to detect…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-16 Mohammadtaher Safarzadeh , Asad Khan , E. A. Huerta , Martin Wattenberg

Data from ground-based gravitational-wave detectors like LIGO contain many types of noise. Glitches are short bursts of non-Gaussian noise that may hinder our ability to identify or analyse gravitational-wave signals. They may have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-23 E Mackenzie , C P L Berry , G Niklasch , B Téglás , C Unsworth , K Crowston , D Davis , A K Katsaggelos

Machine learning can be a powerful tool to discover new signal types in astronomical data. We here apply it to search for long-duration transient gravitational waves triggered by pulsar glitches, which could yield physical insight into the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-18 Luana M. Modafferi , Rodrigo Tenorio , David Keitel