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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

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

LIGO interferometer is considered the most sensitive and complicated gravitational experimental equipment ever built. Its main objective is to detect the gravitational wave from the strongest events in the universe by observing if the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-10 Reymond Mesuga , Brian James Bayanay

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

We investigate the use of Convolutional Neural Networks (including the modern ConvNeXt network family) to classify transient noise signals (i.e.~glitches) and gravitational waves in data from the Advanced LIGO detectors. First, we use…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-28 Tiago S. Fernandes , Samuel J. Vieira , Antonio Onofre , Juan Calderón Bustillo , Alejandro Torres-Forné , José A. Font

"Blip glitches" are a type of short duration transient noise in LIGO data. The cause for the majority of these is currently unknown. Short duration transient noise creates challenges for searches of the highest mass binary black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-29 Alexander Harvey Nitz

Transient non-gaussian noise in gravitational wave detectors, commonly referred to as glitches, pose challenges for inference of the astrophysical properties of detected signals when the two are coincident in time. Current analyses aim…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-17 Katerina Chatziioannou , Neil Cornish , Marcella Wijngaarden , Tyson B. Littenberg

An important goal for LIGO (the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) and Virgo is to find periodic sources of gravitational waves. The LIGO and Virgo detectors are sensitive to a variety of noise of non-astrophysical origin,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-27 LIGO Scientific Collaboration , Virgo Collaboration , Michael W. Coughlin

We describe a case study of translational research, applying interpretability techniques developed for computer vision to machine learning models used to search for and find gravitational waves. The models we study are trained to detect…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-16 Mohammadtaher Safarzadeh , Asad Khan , E. A. Huerta , Martin Wattenberg

Searches for gravitational waves crucially depend on exact signal processing of noisy strain data from gravitational wave detectors, which are known to exhibit significant non-Gaussian behavior. In this paper, we study two distinct…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 Barak Zackay , Tejaswi Venumadhav , Javier Roulet , Liang Dai , Matias Zaldarriaga

In the field of gravitational-wave (GW) interferometers, the most severe limitation to the detection of transient signals from astrophysical sources comes from transient noise artefacts, known as glitches, that happens at a rate around $1$…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-11 Melissa Lopez , Vincent Boudart , Stefano Schmidt , Sarah Caudill

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…

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

Machine learning has emerged as a popular and powerful approach for solving problems in astrophysics. We review applications of machine learning techniques for the analysis of ground-based gravitational-wave detector data. Examples include…

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

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

This work investigates the temporal distribution of glitches detected by LIGO, focusing on the morphological classification provided by the Gravity Spy project. Starting from the hypothesis that these events follow a Poisson process, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-10 Giovanna Souza Rodrigues Costa , Julio Cesar Martins , Odylio Denys Aguiar

Gravitational wave emission is expected to arise from a variety of astrophysical phenomena. A new generation of detectors with sensitivity consistent with expectation from such sources is being developed. The Laser Interferometer…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Barry C. Barish

Pulsar glitches are a potential source of gravitational waves for current and future interferometric gravitational wave detectors. Some pulsar glitch events were observed by radio and X-ray telescopes during the fifth LIGO science run. It…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Kazuhiro Hayama , Shantanu Desai , Soumya D. Mohanty , Malik Rakhmanov , Tiffany Summerscales , Sanichiro Yoshida

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