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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

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

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 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

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

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

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 detection pipelines have helped to identify over one hundred compact binary mergers in the data collected by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo interferometers, whose sensitivity has provided unprecedented access to the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-22 Ryan Magee , Ritwik Sharma , Ananya Agrawal , Rhiannon Udall

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 number of astrophysical sources detected by Advanced LIGO and Virgo is expected to increase as the detectors approach their design sensitivity. Gravitational wave detectors are also sensitive to transient noise sources created by the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 Jade Powell

Despite achieving sensitivities capable of detecting the extremely small amplitude of gravitational waves (GWs), LIGO and Virgo detector data contain frequent bursts of non-Gaussian transient noise, commonly known as 'glitches'. Glitches…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-21 Sofia Alvarez-Lopez , Annudesh Liyanage , Julian Ding , Raymond Ng , Jess McIver

In the coming years gravitational-wave detectors will undergo a series of improvements, with an increase in their detection rate by about an order of magnitude. Routine detections of gravitational-wave signals promote novel astrophysical…

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

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

(abridged for arXiv) With the first direct detection of gravitational waves, the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) has initiated a new field of astronomy by providing an alternate means of sensing the…

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

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…

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

Gravitational wave (GW) detectors, such as LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA, detect faint signals from distant astrophysical events. However, their high sensitivity also makes them susceptible to background noise, which can obscure these signals.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-23 Tom Dooney , Harsh Narola , Stefano Bromuri , R. Lyana Curier , Chris Van Den Broeck , Sarah Caudill , Daniel Stanley Tan

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory forms part of the international effort to detect and study gravitational waves of astrophysical origin. One of the major obstacles for this project with the first generation detectors…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-21 Duncan M. Macleod , Stephen Fairhurst , Brennan Hughey , Andrew P. Lundgren , Larne Pekowsky , Jameson Rollins , Joshua R. Smith