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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

Gravitational-wave (GW) interferometers are able to detect a change in distance of $\sim$ 1/10,000th the size of a proton. Such sensitivity leads to large appearance rates of non-Gaussian transient noise bursts in the main detector strain,…

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

The proposed Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission is tasked with the detection and characterization of gravitational waves from various sources in the universe. This endeavor is challenged by transient displacement and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-21 Niklas Houba , Luigi Ferraioli , Domenico Giardini

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

Gravitational wave detectors such as LIGO and Virgo are susceptible to various types of instrumental and environmental disturbances known as glitches which can mask and mimic gravitational waves. While there are 22 classes of non-Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Sivaramakrishnan Sankarapandian , Brian Kulis

Ground-based gravitational wave detectors are now routinely surveying the dark Universe, finding hundreds of collisions between compact objects such as black holes and neutron stars. However, terrestrial non-Gaussian noise artefacts,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-20 Gregory Ashton , Colm Talbot , Andrew Lundgren , Ann-Kristin Malz , Joseph Areeda

In this paper we investigate the impact of transient noise artifacts, or {\it glitches}, on gravitational-wave inference from ground-based interferometer data, and test how modeling and subtracting these glitches affects the inferred…

The advancement of The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) has significantly enhanced the feasibility and reliability of gravitational wave detection. However, LIGO's high sensitivity makes it susceptible to transient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Yi Li , Yunan Wu , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

The phenomenon of Gravitational Wave (GW) analysis has grown in popularity as technology has advanced and the process of observing gravitational waves has become more precise. Although the sensitivity and the frequency of observation of GW…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Elena-Simona Apostol , Ciprian-Octavian Truică

We present a new ${\it{gating}}$ method to remove non-Gaussian noise transients in gravitational wave data. The method does not rely on any a-priori knowledge on the amplitude or duration of the transient events. In light of the character…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-02 Benjamin Steltner , Maria Alessandra Papa , Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein

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

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…

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) network of gravitational-wave (GW) detectors have observed many tens of compact binary mergers to date. Transient, non-Gaussian noise excursions, known as "glitches", can impact signal detection in various ways.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-27 Neev Shah , Alan M. Knee , Jess McIver , David Stenning

Glitching pulsars are expected to be important sources of gravitational waves. In this paper, we explore six different models that propose the emission of transient continuous waves, lasting days to months, coincident with glitches. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-23 Garvin Yim , Lijing Shao , Renxin Xu

Gravitational wave (GW) detectors, such as LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA, detect faint signals from distant astrophysical events. However, their high sensitivity also makes them susceptible to background noise, which can obscure these signals.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-23 Tom Dooney , Harsh Narola , Stefano Bromuri , R. Lyana Curier , Chris Van Den Broeck , Sarah Caudill , Daniel Stanley Tan

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

KAGRA, the kilometer-scale underground gravitational-wave detector, is located at Kamioka, Japan. In April 2020, an astrophysics observation was performed at the KAGRA detector in combination with the GEO 600 detector; this observation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-24 KAGRA Collaboration , H. Abe , R. X. Adhikari , T. Akutsu , M. Ando , A. Araya , N. Aritomi , H. Asada , Y. Aso , S. Bae , Y. Bae , R. Bajpai , S. W. Ballmer , K. Cannon , Z. Cao , E. Capocasa , M. Chan , C. Chen , D. Chen , K. Chen , Y. Chen , C-Y. Chiang , Y-K. Chu , J. C. Driggers , S. E. Dwyer , A. Effler , S. Eguchi , M. Eisenmann , Y. Enomoto , R. Flaminio , H. K. Fong , V. V. Frolov , Y. Fujii , Y. Fujikawa , Y. Fujimoto , M. Fukushima , D. Gao , G. -G. Ge , S. Ha , I. P. W. Hadiputrawan , S. Haino , W. -B. Han , K. Hasegawa , K. Hattori , H. Hayakawa , K. Hayama , Y. Himemoto , N. Hirata , C. Hirose , T-C. Ho , B-H. Hsieh , H-F. Hsieh , C. Hsiung , H-Y. Huang , P. Huang , Y-C. Huang , Y. -J. Huang , D. C. Y. Hui , S. Ide , B. Ikenoue , K. Inayoshi , Y. Inoue , K. Ito , Y. Itoh , K. Izumi , C. Jeon , H. -B. Jin , K. Jung , P. Jung , K. Kaihotsu , T. Kajita , M. Kakizaki , M. Kamiizumi , N. Kanda , T. Kato , K. Kawabe , K. Kawaguchi , C. Kim , J. Kim , J. C. Kim , Y. -M. Kim , N. Kimura , Y. Kobayashi , K. Kohri , K. Kokeyama , A. K. H. Kong , N. Koyama , C. Kozakai , J. Kume , Y. Kuromiya , S. Kuroyanagi , K. Kwak , E. Lee , H. W. Lee , R. Lee , M. Leonardi , K. L. Li , P. Li , L. C. -C. Lin , C-Y. Lin , E. T. Lin , F-K. Lin , F-L. Lin , H. L. Lin , G. C. Liu , L. -W. Luo , M. Ma'arif , E. Majorana , Y. Michimura , N. Mio , O. Miyakawa , K. Miyo , S. Miyoki , Y. Mori , S. Morisaki , N. Morisue , Y. Moriwaki , A. Mullavey , K. Nagano , K. Nakamura , H. Nakano , M. Nakano , Y. Nakayama , T. Narikawa , L. Naticchioni , L. Nguyen Quynh , W. -T. Ni , T. Nishimoto , A. Nishizawa , S. Nozaki , Y. Obayashi , Y. Obuchi , W. Ogaki , J. J. Oh , K. Oh , M. Ohashi , T. Ohashi , M. Ohkawa , H. Ohta , Y. Okutani , K. Oohara , S. Oshino , S. Otabe , K. -C. Pan , A. Parisi , J. Park , F. E. Peña Arellano , S. Saha , S. Saito , Y. Saito , K. Sakai , T. Sawada , Y. Sekiguchi , L. Shao , Y. Shikano , H. Shimizu , R. Shimizu , K. Shimode , H. Shinkai , T. Shishido , A. Shoda , K. Somiya , I. Song , R. Sugimoto , J. Suresh , T. Suzuki , T. Suzuki , T. Suzuki , H. Tagoshi , H. Takahashi , R. Takahashi , S. Takano , H. Takeda , M. Takeda , M. Tamaki , K. Tanaka , T. Tanaka , T. Tanaka , S. Tanioka , A. Taruya , T. Tomaru , T. Tomura , L. Trozzo , T. Tsang , J-S. Tsao , S. Tsuchida , T. Tsutsui , T. Tsuzuki , D. Tuyenbayev , N. Uchikata , T. Uchiyama , A. Ueda , T. Uehara , K. Ueno , G. Ueshima , F. Uraguchi , T. Ushiba , M. H. P. M. van Putten , J. Wang , T. Washimi , C. Wu , H. Wu , T. Yamada , K. Yamamoto , T. Yamamoto , K. Yamashita , R. Yamazaki , Y. Yang , S. -W. Yeh , J. Yokoyama , T. Yokozawa , T. Yoshioka , H. Yuzurihara , S. Zeidler , M. Zhan , H. Zhang , Y. Zhao , Z. -H. Zhu

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will open a rich discovery space in the milli-Hertz gravitational wave band. In addition to the anticipated signals from many millions of binary systems, this band may contain new and previously…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-16 Travis Robson , Neil J. Cornish

Noise in various interferometer systems can sometimes couple non-linearly to create excess noise in the gravitational wave (GW) strain data. Third-order statistics, such as bicoherence and biphase, can identify these couplings and help…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-29 Bernard Hall , Sudhagar Suyamprakasam , Nairwita Mazumder , Anupreeta More , Sukanta Bose