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We present a method to identify and categorize gravitational wave candidate triggers identified by matched filtering gravitational wave searches (pipelines) caused by transient noise (glitches) in gravitational wave detectors using Support…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-25 Zach Yarbrough , Andre Guimaraes , Prathamesh Joshi , Gabriela González , Andrew Valentini

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

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

In the data obtained by laser interferometric gravitational wave detectors, transient noise with non-stationary and non-Gaussian features occurs at a high rate. This often results in problems such as detector instability and the hiding…

Blip glitches are short noise transients present in data from ground-based gravitational-wave observatories. These glitches resemble the gravitational-wave signature of massive binary black hole mergers. Hence, the sensitivity of transient…

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 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

Data from the LIGO detectors typically contain many non-Gaussian noise transients which arise due to instrumental and environmental conditions. These non-Gaussian transients can be an issue for the modelled and unmodelled transient…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-23 L. K. Nuttall

Gravitational-wave (GW) interferometers are able to detect a change in distance of $\sim$ 1/10,000th the size of a proton. Such sensitivity leads to large appearance rates of non-Gaussian transient noise bursts in the main detector strain,…

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

The detection of gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo provides an opportunity to study the strong-field, highly relativistic regime of gravity. Gravitational-wave tests of general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-02 Jack Y. L. Kwok , Rico K. L. Lo , Alan J. Weinstein , Tjonnie G. F. Li

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

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

Data from gravitational-wave (GW) detectors often contains a high rate of non-Gaussian transient noise, known as glitches. The parameters estimated from GW signals coinciding with detector glitches are occasionally biased away from their…

To date, the LIGO collaboration has detected three gravitational wave (GW) events appearing in both its Hanford and Livingston detectors. In this article we reexamine the LIGO data with regard to correlations between the two detectors. With…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 James Creswell , Sebastian von Hausegger , Andrew D. Jackson , Hao Liu , Pavel Naselsky

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

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

Scattered light is one of the most common sources of noise in the LIGO gravitational wave detectors. Light scattering is a highly non-linear process through which motion at low frequencies gets up-converted and creates noise in a higher…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-15 Debasmita Nandi , Anamaria Effler , Siddharth Soni , Tabata Aira Ferreira , Robert Schofield , Huyen Pham , Timothy O'Hanlon , V. V. Frolov , Gabriela González

We present a new ${\it{gating}}$ method to remove non-Gaussian noise transients in gravitational wave data. The method does not rely on any a-priori knowledge on the amplitude or duration of the transient events. In light of the character…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-02 Benjamin Steltner , Maria Alessandra Papa , Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein

The increasing sensitivity of gravitational-wave detectors has brought about an increase in the rate of astrophysical signal detections as well as the rate of "glitches"; transient and non-Gaussian detector noise. Temporal overlap of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-18 Sophie Hourihane , Katerina Chatziioannou , Marcella Wijngaarden , Derek Davis , Tyson Littenberg , Neil Cornish