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Noise of non-astrophysical origin will contaminate science data taken by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (aLIGO) and Advanced Virgo gravitational-wave detectors. Prompt characterization of instrumental and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-21 Jade Powell , Daniele Trifiro , Elena Cuoco , Ik Siong Heng , Marco Cavaglia

Transient noise appearing in the data from gravitational-wave detectors frequently causes problems, such as instability of the detectors and overlapping or mimicking gravitational-wave signals. Because transient noise is considered to be…

The sensitivity of searches for astrophysical transients in data from the LIGO is generally limited by the presence of transient, non-Gaussian noise artifacts, which occur at a high-enough rate such that accidental coincidence across…

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

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

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

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

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…

Gravitational wave interferometers are disrupted by various types of nonstationary noise, referred to as glitch noise, that affect data analysis and interferometer sensitivity. The accurate identification and classification of glitch noise…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-17 Shoichi Oshino , Yusuke Sakai , Marco Meyer-Conde , Takashi Uchiyama , Yousuke Itoh , Yutaka Shikano , Yoshikazu Terada , Hirotaka Takahashi

The gravitational-wave (GW) detector data are affected by short-lived instrumental or terrestrial transients, called glitches, which can simulate GW signals. Mitigation of glitches is particularly difficult for algorithms which target…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-21 Sophie Bini , Gabriele Vedovato , Marco Drago , Francesco Salemi , Giovanni Andrea Prodi

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

In this paper we investigate the impact of transient noise artifacts, or {\it glitches}, on gravitational-wave inference from ground-based interferometer data, and test how modeling and subtracting these glitches affects the inferred…

We investigate the potential of neural-network based classifiers for discriminating gravitational wave bursts (GWBs) of a given canonical family (e.g. core-collapse supernova waveforms) from typical transient instrumental artifacts…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-01-24 Salvatore Rampone , Vincenzo Pierro , Luigi Troiano , Innocenzo M. Pinto

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) network of gravitational-wave (GW) detectors have observed many tens of compact binary mergers to date. Transient, non-Gaussian noise excursions, known as "glitches", can impact signal detection in various ways.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-27 Neev Shah , Alan M. Knee , Jess McIver , David Stenning

The data taken by the advanced LIGO and Virgo gravitational-wave detectors contains short duration noise transients that limit the significance of astrophysical detections and reduce the duty cycle of the instruments. As the advanced…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Jade Powell , Alejandro Torres-Forné , Ryan Lynch , Daniele Trifirò , Elena Cuoco , Marco Cavaglià , Ik Siong Heng , José A. Font

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

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

The noise of gravitational-wave (GW) interferometers limits their sensitivity and impacts the data quality, hindering the detection of GW signals from astrophysical sources. For transient searches, the most problematic are transient noise…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Melissa Lopez , Vincent Boudart , Kerwin Buijsman , Amit Reza , Sarah Caudill

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

In recent years, much work have studied the use of convolutional neural networks for gravitational-wave detection. However little work pay attention to whether the transient noise can trigger the CNN model or not. In this paper, we study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-08 Chao Zhan , Mingzhen Jia , Cunliang Ma , Zhongliang Lu , Wenbin Lin