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Glitches are non-Gaussian noise transients originating from environmental and instrumental sources that contaminate data from gravitational wave detectors. Some glitches can even mimic gravitational wave signals from compact object mergers,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-01 Tabata Aira Ferreira , Gabriela González

Gravitational wave detection requires an in-depth understanding of the physical properties of gravitational wave signals, and the noise from which they are extracted. Understanding the statistical properties of noise is a complex endeavor,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-05 Wei Wei , E. A. Huerta

In recent years, much work have studied the use of convolutional neural networks for gravitational-wave detection. However little work pay attention to whether the transient noise can trigger the CNN model or not. In this paper, we study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-08 Chao Zhan , Mingzhen Jia , Cunliang Ma , Zhongliang Lu , Wenbin Lin

Despite the success of deep neural networks (DNNs) in image classification tasks, the human-level performance relies on massive training data with high-quality manual annotations, which are expensive and time-consuming to collect. There…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Junnan Li , Yongkang Wong , Qi Zhao , Mohan Kankanhalli

Transient noise glitches in gravitational-wave detector data limit the sensitivity of searches and contaminate detected signals. In this Paper, we show how glitches can be simulated using generative adversarial networks. We produce hundreds…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 Jade Powell , Ling Sun , Katinka Gereb , Paul D. Lasky , Markus Dollmann

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

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

The potential of compressed sensing for obtaining sparse time-frequency representations for gravitational wave data analysis is illustrated by comparison with existing methods, as regards i) shedding light on the fine structure of noise…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-16 Paolo Addesso , Maurizio Longo , Stefano Marano , Vincenzo Matta , Maria Principe , Innocenzo M. Pinto

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 data are often contaminated by non-Gaussian noise transients, glitches, which can bias the inference of astrophysical signal parameters. Traditional approaches either subtract glitches in a pre-processing step, or a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-01 Ann-Kristin Malz , John Veitch

The learning with privileged information setting has recently attracted a lot of attention within the machine learning community, as it allows the integration of additional knowledge into the training process of a classifier, even when this…

In this paper, benefiting from the strong ability of deep neural network in estimating non-linear functions, we propose a discriminative embedding function to be used as a feature extractor for clustering tasks. The trained embedding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Sara Bahaadini , Vahid Noroozi , Neda Rohani , Scott Coughlin , Michael Zevin , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

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

The LIGO observatories detect gravitational waves through monitoring changes in the detectors' length down to below $10^{-19}$\,$m/\sqrt{Hz}$ variation---a small fraction of the size of the atoms that make up the detector. To achieve this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-27 Robert E. Colgan , K. Rainer Corley , Yenson Lau , Imre Bartos , John N. Wright , Zsuzsa Marka , Szabolcs Marka

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

Ensuring high-quality data is paramount for maximizing the performance of machine learning models and business intelligence systems. However, challenges in data quality, including noise in data capture, missing records, limited data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Paulo Neves , Joerg K. Wegner , Philippe Schwaller

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

In this paper, leveraging the capabilities of neural networks for modeling the non-linearities that exist in the data, we propose several models that can project data into a low dimensional, discriminative, and smooth manifold. The proposed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-30 Sara Bahaadini , Yunan Wu , Scott Coughlin , Michael Zevin , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

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

On September 14, 2015, a gravitational wave signal from a coalescing black hole binary system was observed by the Advanced LIGO detectors. This paper describes the transient noise backgrounds used to determine the significance of the event…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-22 The LIGO Scientific Collaboration , the Virgo Collaboration