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"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

Glitches frequently contaminate data in gravitational-wave detectors, complicating the observation and analysis of astrophysical signals. This work introduces VIGILant, an automatic pipeline for classification and visualization of glitches…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-16 Tiago Fernandes , Francesco Di Renzo , Antonio Onofre , Alejandro Torres-Forné , José A. Font

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

Gravitational wave bursts are transient signals distinct from compact binary mergers that arise from a wide variety of astrophysical phenomena. Because most of these phenomena are poorly modeled, the use of traditional search methods such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-18 Vincent Boudart

Excess noise from scattered light poses a persistent challenge in the analysis of data from gravitational wave detectors such as LIGO. We integrate a physically motivated model for the behavior of these "glitches" into a standard Bayesian…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 Rhiannon Udall , Derek Davis

Transient signals arising from instrumental or environmental factors, commonly referred to as glitches, constitute the predominant background of false alarms in gravitational wave searches with ground-based detectors. Therefore, effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-30 Raghav Girgaonkar , Soumya D. Mohanty

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

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

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

Gravitational-wave signals from inspirals of binary compact objects (black holes and neutron stars) are primary targets of the ongoing searches by ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) interferometers (LIGO, Virgo, and GEO-600). We present…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-13 V. Raymond , M. V. van der Sluys , I. Mandel , V. Kalogera , C. Roever , N. Christensen

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

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

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

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…

The first successful detection of gravitational waves by ground-based observatories, such as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), marked a breakthrough in our comprehension of the Universe. However, due to the…

Low-latency gravitational-wave alerts provide the greater multi-messenger community with information about the candidate events detected by the International Gravitational-Wave Network (IGWN). Prompt release of data products such as the sky…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-19 Seiya Tsukamoto , Andrew Toivonen , Holton Griffin , Avyukt Raghuvanshi , Megan Averill , Frank Kerkow , Michael W. Coughlin , Man Leong Chan , Leo Singer

Data from gravitational-wave (GW) detectors often contains a high rate of non-Gaussian transient noise, known as glitches. The parameters estimated from GW signals coinciding with detector glitches are occasionally biased away from their…

(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…

The exquisite sensitivity of the advanced LIGO detectors has enabled the detection of multiple gravitational wave signals. The sophisticated design of these detectors mitigates the effect of most types of noise. However, advanced LIGO data…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-15 Daniel George , Hongyu Shen , E. A. Huerta