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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

"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

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…

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

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

Gravitational-wave observatories become more sensitive with each observing run, increasing the number of detected gravitational-wave signals. A limiting factor in identifying these signals is the presence of transient non-Gaussian noise,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-14 Ruxandra Bondarescu , Andrew Lundgren , Ronaldas Macas

Transient noise (glitches) in LIGO data hinders the detection of gravitational waves (GW). The Gravity Spy project has categorized these noise events into various classes. With the O3 run, there is the inclusion of two additional noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Divyansh Srivastava , Andrzej Niedzielski

The observation of gravitational waves is hindered by the presence of transient noise (glitches). We study data from the third observing run of the Advanced LIGO detectors, and identify new glitch classes. Using training sets assembled by…

We investigate the use of Convolutional Neural Networks (including the modern ConvNeXt network family) to classify transient noise signals (i.e.~glitches) and gravitational waves in data from the Advanced LIGO detectors. First, we use…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-28 Tiago S. Fernandes , Samuel J. Vieira , Antonio Onofre , Juan Calderón Bustillo , Alejandro Torres-Forné , José A. Font

Transient noise ("glitches") in gravitational wave detectors can mimic or obscure true signals, significantly reducing detection sensitivity. Identifying and excluding glitch-contaminated data segments is therefore crucial for enhancing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-28 T. Akutsu , M. Ando , M. Aoumi , A. Araya , Y. Aso , L. Baiotti , R. Bajpai , K. Cannon , A. H. -Y. Chen , D. Chen , H. Chen , A. Chiba , C. Chou , M. Eisenmann , K. Endo , T. Fujimori , S. Garg , D. Haba , S. Haino , R. Harada , H. Hayakawa , K. Hayama , S. Fujii , Y. Himemoto , N. Hirata , C. Hirose , H. -F. Hsieh , H. -Y. Hsieh , C. Hsiung , S. -H. Hsu , K. Ide , R. Iden , S. Ikeda , H. Imafuku , R. Ishikawa , Y. Itoh , M. Iwaya , H-B. Jin , K. Jung , T. Kajita , I. Kaku , M. Kamiizumi , N. Kanda , H. Kato , T. Kato , R. Kawamoto , S. Kim , K. Kobayashi , K. Kohri , K. Kokeyama , K. Komori , A. K. H. Kong , T. Koyama , J. Kume , S. Kuroyanagi , S. Kuwahara , K. Kwak , S. Kwon , H. W. Lee , R. Lee , S. Lee , K. L. Li , L. C. -C. Lin , E. T. Lin , Y. -C. Lin , G. C. Liu , K. Maeda , M. Meyer-Conde , Y. Michimura , K. Mitsuhashi , O. Miyakawa , S. Miyoki , S. Morisaki , Y. Moriwaki , M. Murakoshi , K. Nakagaki , K. Nakamura , H. Nakano , T. Narikawa , L. Naticchioni , L. Nguyen Quynh , Y. Nishino , A. Nishizawa , K. Obayashi , M. Ohashi , M. Onishi , K. Oohara , S. Oshino , R. Ozaki , M. A. Page , K. -C. Pan , B. -J. Park , J. Park , F. E. Pena Arellano , N. Ruhama , S. Saha , K. Sakai , Y. Sakai , R. Sato , S. Sato , Y. Sato , Y. Sato , T. Sawada , Y. Sekiguchi , N. Sembo , L. Shao , Z. -H. Shi , R. Shimomura , H. Shinkai , S. Singh , K. Somiya , I. Song , H. Sotani , Y. Sudo , K. Suzuki , M. Suzuki , H. Tagoshi , K. Takada , H. Takahashi , R. Takahashi , A. Takamori , S. Takano , H. Takeda , K. Takeshita , M. Tamaki , K. Tanaka , S. J. Tanaka , A. Taruya , T. Tomaru , T. Tomura , S. Tsuchida , N. Uchikata , T. Uchiyama , T. Uehara , K. Ueno , T. Ushiba , H. Wang , T. Washimi , C. Wu , H. Wu , K. Yamamoto , T. Yamamoto , T. S. Yamamoto , R. Yamazaki , Y. Yang , S. -W. Yeh , J. Yokoyama , T. Yokozawa , H. Yuzurihara , Z. -C. Zhao , Z. -H. Zhu , Y. -M Kim

Glitches are transitory noise artifacts that degrade the detection sensitivity and accuracy of interferometric observatories such as LIGO and Virgo in gravitational wave astronomy. Reliable glitch subtraction techniques are essential for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-04 Mohammad Abu Thaher Chowdhury

Advanced LIGO data contains numerous noise transients, or "glitches", that have been shown to reduce the sensitivity of matched filter searches for gravitational waves from compact binaries by increasing the rate at which random…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-26 Derek Davis , Laurel V. White , Peter R. Saulson

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…

Data streams of gravitational-wave detectors are polluted by transient noise features, or "glitches", of instrumental and environmental origin. In this work, we investigate the use of total-variation methods and learned dictionaries to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-15 Alejandro Torres-Forné , Elena Cuoco , José A. Font , Antonio Marquina

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

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

The Gravitational waves have opened a new window on the Universe and paved the way to a new era of multimessenger observations of cosmic sources. Second-generation ground-based detectors such as Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo have been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-13 M. Razzano , F. Di Renzo , F. Fidecaro , G. Hemming , S. Katsanevas

Data recorded by gravitational wave detectors includes many non-astrophysical transient noise bursts, the most common of which is caused by scattered-light within the detectors. These so-called ``glitches'' in the data impact the ability to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-21 Arthur E. Tolley , Gareth S. Cabourn Davies , Ian W. Harry , Andrew P. Lundgren

We propose an algorithm, guided variational autoencoder (Guided-VAE), that is able to learn a controllable generative model by performing latent representation disentanglement learning. The learning objective is achieved by providing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Zheng Ding , Yifan Xu , Weijian Xu , Gaurav Parmar , Yang Yang , Max Welling , Zhuowen Tu

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