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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

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

Gravitational wave observations by ground based detectors such as LIGO and Virgo have transformed astrophysics, enabling the study of compact binary systems and their mergers. However, transient noise artifacts, or glitches, pose a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-09 Chayan Chatterjee , Karan Jani

Non-cosmic, non-Gaussian disturbances known as "glitches", show up in gravitational-wave data of the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, or aLIGO. In this paper, we propose a deep multi-view convolutional neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Sara Bahaadini , Neda Rohani , Scott Coughlin , Michael Zevin , Vicky Kalogera , Aggelos K Katsaggelos

Interferometric gravitational-wave detectors like LIGO, GEO600 and Virgo record a surplus of information above and beyond possible gravitational-wave events. These auxiliary channels capture information about the state of the detector and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-29 Reed Essick , Lindy Blackburn , Erik Katsavounidis

Noise of non-astrophysical origin will contaminate science data taken by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (aLIGO) and Advanced Virgo gravitational-wave detectors. Prompt characterization of instrumental and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-21 Jade Powell , Daniele Trifiro , Elena Cuoco , Ik Siong Heng , Marco Cavaglia

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…

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

Central to the gravitational wave detection problem is the challenge of separating features in the data produced by astrophysical sources from features produced by the detector. Matched filtering provides an optimal solution for Gaussian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-09 Tyson B. Littenberg , Neil J. Cornish

Spectrogram classification plays an important role in analyzing gravitational wave data. In this paper, we propose a framework to improve the classification performance by using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). As substantial efforts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-03 Jianqi Yan , Alex P. Leung , David C. Y. Hui

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

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…

Excess transient noise events, or glitches, impact the data quality of ground-based ravitational-wave (GW) detectors and impair the detection of signals produced by astrophysical sources. Identification of the causes of these glitches is a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-19 Kentaro Mogushi

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

Data from ground-based gravitational wave detectors are often contaminated by non-Gaussian instrumental artifacts or detector noise transients. Unbiased source property estimation relies on the ability to correctly identify and characterize…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-24 Man Leong Chan , Jess McIver , Yannick Lecoeuche , Dhatri Raghunathan , Sofía Álvarez-López , Julian Ding , Annudesh Liyanage , Raymond Ng , Heather Fong

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

We introduce the use of conditional generative adversarial networks forgeneralised gravitational wave burst generation in the time domain.Generativeadversarial networks are generative machine learning models that produce new databased on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-11 J. McGinn , C. Messenger , I. S. Heng , M. J. Williams

Gravitational wave astronomy is established with direct observation of gravitational wave from merging binary black holes and binary neutron stars during the first and second observing run of LIGO and Virgo detectors. The gravitational-wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-24 V. Gayathri , P. Bacon , A. Pai , E. Chassande-Mottin , F. Salemi , G. Vedovato

As two neutron stars merge, they emit gravitational waves that can potentially be detected by earth bound detectors. Matched-filtering based algorithms have traditionally been used to extract quiet signals embedded in noise. We introduce a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-29 Marlin B. Schäfer , Frank Ohme , Alexander H. Nitz

Transient noise artifacts, or glitches, fundamentally limit the sensitivity of gravitational-wave (GW) interferometers and can mimic true astrophysical signals, particularly the short-duration intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) mergers.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-29 Suyash Deshmukh , Chayan Chatterjee , Abigail Petulante , Tabata Aira Ferreira , Karan Jani