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The two interferometers of the Laser Interferometry Gravitaional-wave Observatory (LIGO) recently detected gravitational waves from the mergers of binary black hole systems. Accurate calibration of the output of these detectors was crucial…

This paper presents an analysis of noise transients observed in LIGO data during the first part of the fourth observing run, using the unsupervised machine learning technique t-distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE) to examine…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Tabata Aira Ferreira , Gabriela González , Osvaldo Salas

Machine learning has become an effective tool for processing the extensive data sets produced by large physics experiments. Gravitational-wave detectors are now listening to the universe with quantum-enhanced sensitivity, accomplished with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-07 Chris Whittle , Ge Yang , Matthew Evans , Lisa Barsotti

On September 2015, a century after Einstein's predictions of their existence, the first gravitational waves (GWs) direct detection was performed by LIGO. On August 17, 2017, the two Advanced LIGO and the Advanced Virgo interferometers…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-20 Catherine Nguyen

We report on the status of the Laser Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the plans and progress towards Enhanced and Advanced LIGO. The initial LIGO detectors have finished a two year long data run during which a full…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-13 Joshua R Smith

Quality improvement of interferometric data collected by gravitational-wave detectors such as Advanced LIGO and Virgo is mission critical for the success of gravitational-wave astrophysics. Gravitational-wave detectors are sensitive to a…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-12-14 Marco Cavaglia , Kai Staats , Teerth Gill

When gravitational waves pass near massive astrophysical objects, they can be gravitationally lensed. The lensing can split them into multiple wave-fronts, magnify them, or imprint beating patterns on the waves. Here we focus on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 A. Renske A. C. Wierda , Ewoud Wempe , Otto A. Hannuksela , Léon V. E. Koopmans , Chris Van Den Broeck

The recent advances in Gravitational-wave astronomy have greatly accelerated the study of Multimessenger astrophysics. There is a need for the development of fast and efficient algorithms to detect non-astrophysical transients and noises…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-28 Rahul Nigam , Amit Mishra , Pranath Reddy

Time series data and their time-frequency representation from gravitational-wave interferometers present multiple opportunities for the use of artificial intelligence methods associated with signal and image processing. Closely connected…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-13 Siddharth Soni , Nikhil Mukund , Erik Katsavounidis

A recent proposal describes space based gravitational wave (GW) detection with optical lattice atomic clocks [Kolkowitz et. al., Phys. Rev. D 94, 124043 (2016)] [1]. Based on their setup, we propose a new measurement method for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-15 Feifan He , Baocheng Zhang

Deep learning method develops very fast as a tool for data analysis these years. Such a technique is quite promising to treat gravitational wave detection data. There are many works already in the literature which used deep learning…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 He Wang , Zhoujian Cao , Xiaolin Liu , Shichao Wu , Jian-Yang Zhu

The Advanced LIGO detectors have recently completed their second observation run successfully. The run lasted for approximately 10 months and lead to multiple new discoveries. The sensitivity to gravitational waves was partially limited by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-27 J. C. Driggers , S. Vitale , A. P. Lundgren , M. Evans , K. Kawabe , S. E. Dwyer , K. Izumi , R. M. S. Schofield , A. Effler , D. Sigg , P. Fritschel , M. Drago , A. Nitz , B. P. Abbott , R. Abbott , T. D. Abbott , C. Adams , R. X Adhikari , V. B. Adya , A. Ananyeva , S. Appert , K. Arai , S. M. Aston , C. Austin , S. W. Ballmer , D. Barker , B. Barr , L. Barsotti , J. Bartlett , I. Bartos , J. C. Batch , A. S. Bell , J. Betzwieser , G. Billingsley , J. Birch , S. Biscans , C. D. Blair , R. M. Blair , R. Bork , A. F. Brooks , H. Cao , G. Ciani , F. Clara , S. J. Cooper , P. Corban , S. T. Countryman , P. B. Covas , M. J. Cowart , D. C. Coyne , A. Cumming , L. Cunningham , K. Danzmann , C. F. Da Silva Costa , E. J. Daw , D. DeBra , R. DeSalvo , K. L. Dooley , S. Doravari , T. B. Edo , T. Etzel , T. M. Evans , H. Fair , A. Fernandez-Galiana , E. C. Ferreira , R. P. Fisher , H. Fong , R. Frey , V. V. Frolov , P. Fulda , M. Fyffe , B. Gateley , J. A. Giaime , K. D. Giardina , E. Goetz , R. Goetz , S. Gras , C. Gray , H. Grote , K. E. Gushwa , E. K. Gustafson , R. Gustafson , E. D. Hall , G. Hammond , J. Hanks , J. Hanson , T. Hardwick , G. M. Harry , M. C. Heintze , A. W. Heptonstall , J. Hough , R. Jones , S. Kandhasamy , S. Karki , M. Kasprzack , S. Kaufer , R. Kennedy , N. Kijbunchoo , W. Kim , E. J. King , P. J. King , J. S. Kissel , W. Z. Korth , G. Kuehn , M. Landry , B. Lantz , M. Laxen , J. Liu , N. A. Lockerbie , M. Lormand , M. MacInnis , D. M. Macleod , S. Marka , Z. Marka , A. S. Markosyan , E. Maros , P. Marsh , I. W. Martin , D. V. Martynov , K. Mason , T. J. Massinger , F. Matichard , N. Mavalvala , R. McCarthy , D. E. McClelland , S. McCormick , L. McCuller , J. McIver , D. J. McManus , T. McRae , G. Mendell , E. L. Merilh , P. M. Meyers , R. Mittleman , K. Mogushi , D. Moraru , G. Moreno , C. M. Mow-Lowry , G. Mueller , N. Mukund , A. Mullavey , J. Munch , T. J. N. Nelson , P. Nguyen , L. K. Nuttall , J. Oberling , M. Oliver , P. Oppermann , Richard J. Oram , B. O'Reilly , D. J. Ottaway , H. Overmier , J. R. Palamos , W. Parker , A. Pele , S. Penn , C. J. Perez , M. Phelps , V. Pierro , I. M. Pinto , M. Pirello , M. Principe , L. G. Prokhorov , O. Puncken , V. Quetschke , E. A. Quintero , H. Radkins , P. Raffai , K. E. Ramirez , S. Reid , D. H. Reitze , N. A. Robertson , J. G. Rollins , V. J. Roma , C. L. Romel , J. H. Romie , M. P. Ross , S. Rowan , K. Ryan , T. Sadecki , E. J. Sanchez , L. E. Sanchez , V. Sandberg , R. L. Savage , D. Sellers , D. A. Shaddock , T. J. Shaffer , B. Shapiro , D. H. Shoemaker , B. J. J. Slagmolen , B. Smith , J. R. Smith , B. Sorazu , A. P. Spencer , K. A. Strain , D. B. Tanner , R. Taylor , M. Thomas , P. Thomas , K. A. Thorne , E. Thrane , K. Toland , C. I. Torrie , G. Traylor , M. Tse , D. Tuyenbayev , G. Vajente , G. Valdes , A. A. van Veggel , S. Vass , A. Vecchio , P. J. Veitch , K. Venkateswara , G. Venugopalan , T. Vo , C. Vorvick , M. Walker , R. L. Ward , J. Warner , B. Weaver , R. Weiss , P. Wessels , B. Willke , C. C. Wipf , J. Worden , H. Yamamoto , C. C. Yancey , Hang Yu , Haocun Yu , L. Zhang , M. E. Zucker , J. Zweizig

The success of the multi-messenger astronomy relies on gravitational-wave observatories like LIGO and Virgo to provide prompt warning of merger events involving neutron stars (including both binary neutron stars and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-15 Hang Yu , Rana X. Adhikari , Ryan Magee , Surabhi Sachdev , Yanbei Chen

The two interferometric LIGO gravitational-wave observatories provide the most sensitive data to date to study the gravitational-wave Universe. As part of a global network, they have just completed their third observing run in which they…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-24 Gregory Ashton , Sarah Thiele , Yannick Lecoeuche , Jess McIver , Laura K Nuttall

We present a novel machine-learning approach to estimate selection effects in gravitational-wave observations. Using techniques similar to those commonly employed in image classification and pattern recognition, we train a series of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-18 Davide Gerosa , Geraint Pratten , Alberto Vecchio

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

The observational era of gravitational-wave astronomy began in the Fall of 2015 with the detection of GW150914. One potential type of detectable gravitational wave is short-duration gravitational-wave bursts, whose waveforms can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-07 Ryan Lynch , Salvatore Vitale , Reed Essick , Erik Katsavounidis , Florent Robinet

We search for gravitational wave (GW) events from LIGO-Virgo's third run that may have been affected by gravitational lensing. Gravitational lensing delays the arrival of GWs, and alters their amplitude -- thus biasing the inferred…

The Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) discovered gravitational waves (GWs) from a binary black hole merger in 2015 September and may soon observe signals from neutron star mergers. There is considerable…

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