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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

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

We apply a machine learning algorithm, the artificial neural network, to the search for gravitational-wave signals associated with short gamma-ray bursts. The multi-dimensional samples consisting of data corresponding to the statistical and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-26 Kyungmin Kim , Ian W. Harry , Kari A. Hodge , Young-Min Kim , Chang-Hwan Lee , Hyun Kyu Lee , John J. Oh , Sang Hoon Oh , Edwin J. Son

All scientific claims of gravitational wave discovery to date rely on the offline statistical analysis of candidate observations in order to quantify significance relative to background processes. The current foundation in such offline…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-12 Michael Andrews , Manfred Paulini , Luke Sellers , Alexey Bobrick , Gianni Martire , Haydn Vestal

Transient signals arising from instrumental or environmental factors, commonly referred to as glitches, constitute the predominant background of false alarms in gravitational wave searches with ground-based detectors. Therefore, effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-30 Raghav Girgaonkar , Soumya D. Mohanty

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

The groundbreaking discoveries of gravitational waves from binary black-hole mergers and, most recently, coalescing neutron stars started a new era of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics and revolutionized our understanding of the Cosmos. Machine…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-08 Plamen G. Krastev

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…

Non-Gaussian noise in gravitational-wave detectors, known as "glitches," can bias the inferred parameters of transient signals when they occur nearby in time and frequency. These biases are addressed with a variety of methods that remove or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-07 Sophie Hourihane , Katerina Chatziioannou

In the field of gravitational-wave (GW) interferometers, the most severe limitation to the detection of transient signals from astrophysical sources comes from transient noise artefacts, known as glitches, that happens at a rate around $1$…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-11 Melissa Lopez , Vincent Boudart , Stefano Schmidt , Sarah Caudill

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

We describe new methods for denoising and detection of gravitational waves embedded in additive Gaussian noise. The methods are based on Total Variation denoising algorithms. These algorithms, which do not need any a priori information…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-10 Alejandro Torres , Antonio Marquina , José A. Font , José M. Ibáñez

Gravitational-wave searches for cosmic strings are currently hindered by the presence of detector glitches, some classes of which strongly resemble cosmic string signals. This confusion greatly reduces the efficiency of searches. A…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-23 Quirijn Meijer , Melissa Lopez , Daichi Tsuna , Sarah Caudill

Denoising of time domain data is a crucial task for many applications such as communication, translation, virtual assistants etc. For this task, a combination of a recurrent neural net (RNNs) with a Denoising Auto-Encoder (DAEs) has shown…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-27 Hongyu Shen , Daniel George , E. A. Huerta , Zhizhen Zhao

Geometric data analysis relies on graphs that are either given as input or inferred from data. These graphs are often treated as "correct" when solving downstream tasks such as graph signal denoising. But real-world graphs are known to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-17 Valentin Debarnot , Vinith Kishore , Cheng Shi , Ivan Dokmanić

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

Depth images captured by Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensors are prone to noise, requiring denoising for reliable downstream applications. Previous works either focus on single-frame processing, or perform multi-frame processing without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Weida Wang , Changyong He , Jin Zeng , Di Qiu

Machine learning is currently a trending topic in various science and engineering disciplines, and the field of geophysics is no exception. With the advent of powerful computers, it is now possible to train the machine to learn complex…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-05-02 Debjani Bhowmick , Deepak K. Gupta , Saumen Maiti , Uma Shankar

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

Identifying the presence of a gravitational wave transient buried in non-stationary, non-Gaussian noise which can often contain spurious noise transients (glitches) is a very challenging task. For a given data set, transient gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-18 V. Gayathri , Dixeena Lopez , R. S. Pranjal , Ik Siong Heng , Archana Pai , Chris Messenger