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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…

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

Transient non-gaussian noise in gravitational wave detectors, commonly referred to as glitches, pose challenges for inference of the astrophysical properties of detected signals when the two are coincident in time. Current analyses aim…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-17 Katerina Chatziioannou , Neil Cornish , Marcella Wijngaarden , Tyson B. Littenberg

Detecting and coherently characterizing thousands of gravitational-wave signals is a core data-analysis challenge for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Transient artifacts, or "glitches", with disparate morphologies are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-22 Alice Spadaro , Riccardo Buscicchio , Daniele Vetrugno , Antoine Klein , Davide Gerosa , Stefano Vitale , Rita Dolesi , William Joseph Weber , Monica Colpi

"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

We describe a tool we improved to detect excess noise in the gravitational wave (GW) channel arising from its bilinear or nonlinear coupling with fluctuations of various components of a GW interferometer and its environment. We also…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-22 Sukanta Bose , Bernard Hall , Nairwita Mazumder , Sanjeev Dhurandhar , Anuradha Gupta , Andrew Lundgren

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 search for signatures of transient, unmodelled gravitational-wave (GW) bursts in the data of ground-based interferometric detectors typically uses `excess-power' search methods. One of the most challenging problems in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Ajith , M. Hewitson , J. R. Smith , K. A. Strain

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

Gravitational wave (GW) transient searches rely on signal-noise discriminators to distinguish astrophysical signals from noise artefacts. These discriminators are typically tuned towards expected signal morphologies, which may limit their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-14 Johann Fernandes , Archana Pai , Koustav Chandra

Interferometric gravitational-wave observatories have opened a new era in astronomy. The rich data produced by an international network enables detailed analysis of the curved space-time around black holes. With nearly one hundred signals…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-07 Gregory Ashton

Gravitational waves from black hole binary mergers carry information about the component spins, but inference is sensitive to analysis assumptions, which may be broken by terrestrial noise transients known as glitches. Using a variety of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-03 Rhiannon Udall , Sophie Bini , Katerina Chatziioannou , Derek Davis , Sophie Hourihane , Yannick Lecoeuche , Jess McIver , Simona Miller

Transient noise artifacts, commonly referred to as glitches, pose a major challenge to parameter inference for space-based gravitational-wave (GW) observations. We develop a glitch-robust amortized inference framework for massive black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-16 Tian-Yang Sun , Bo Liang , Ji-Yu Song , Song-Tao Liu , Shang-Jie Jin , He Wang , Ming-Hui Du , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

The observation of transient gravitational waves is hindered by the presence of transient noise, colloquially referred to as glitches. These glitches can often be misidentified as gravitational waves by searches for unmodeled transients…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-16 Siddharth Soni , Ethan Marx , Erik Katsavounidis , Reed Essick , G. S. Cabourn Davies , Patrick Brockill , Michael W. Coughlin , Shaon Ghosh , Patrick Godwin

Gravitational-wave data from advanced-era interferometric detectors consists of background Gaussian noise, frequent transient artefacts, and rare astrophysical signals. Multiple search algorithms exist to detect the signals from compact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-13 Gregory Ashton , Ann-Kristin Malz , Nicolo Colombo

With a high total mass and an inferred effective spin anti-aligned with the orbital axis at the 99.9% level, GW191109 is one of the most promising candidates for a dynamical formation origin among gravitational wave events observed so far.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-20 Rhiannon Udall , Sophie Hourihane , Simona Miller , Derek Davis , Katerina Chatziioannou , Max Isi , Howard Deshong

We present a method for detection and reconstruction of the gravitational-wave (GW) transients with the networks of advanced detectors. Originally designed to search for transients with the initial GW detectors, it uses significantly…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-17 S. Klimenko , G. Vedovato , M. Drago , F. Salemi , V. Tiwari , G. A. Prodi , C. Lazzaro , K. Ackley , S. Tiwari , C. F. Da Silva Cost- , G. Mitselmakher

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

Instrumental and environmental transient noise bursts in gravitational-wave detectors, or glitches, may impair astrophysical observations by adversely affecting the sky localization and the parameter estimation of gravitational-wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-14 Kentaro Mogushi , Ryan Quitzow-James , Marco Cavaglià , Sumeet Kulkarni , Fergus Hayes

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