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The noise of gravitational-wave (GW) interferometers limits their sensitivity and impacts the data quality, hindering the detection of GW signals from astrophysical sources. For transient searches, the most problematic are transient noise…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Melissa Lopez , Vincent Boudart , Kerwin Buijsman , Amit Reza , Sarah Caudill

We present a new method for the classification of transient noise signals (or glitches) in advanced gravitational-wave interferometers. The method uses learned dictionaries (a supervised machine learning algorithm) for signal denoising, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-22 Miquel Llorens-Monteagudo , Alejandro Torres-Forné , José A. Font , Antonio Marquina

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

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

The gravitational-wave (GW) detector data are affected by short-lived instrumental or terrestrial transients, called glitches, which can simulate GW signals. Mitigation of glitches is particularly difficult for algorithms which target…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-21 Sophie Bini , Gabriele Vedovato , Marco Drago , Francesco Salemi , Giovanni Andrea Prodi

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

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

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…

Gravitational-wave (GW) astronomy has advanced our understanding of compact mergers through instruments like the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). However, the extreme sensitivity required for these detections…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-02 Bri Aleman , Derek Davis

Gravitational wave observations by ground based detectors such as LIGO and Virgo have transformed astrophysics, enabling the study of compact binary systems and their mergers. However, transient noise artifacts, or glitches, pose a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-09 Chayan Chatterjee , Karan Jani

An observation of gravitational waves is a trigger of the multi-messenger search of an astronomical event. A combination of the data from two or three gravitational wave telescopes indicates the location of a source and low-latency data…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-08 Seiya Sasaoka , Hirotaka Takahashi , Yilun Hou , Kentaro Somiya

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

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

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

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

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 observation of transient gravitational waves is hindered by the presence of transient noise, colloquially referred to as glitches. These glitches can often be misidentified as gravitational waves by searches for unmodeled transients…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-16 Siddharth Soni , Ethan Marx , Erik Katsavounidis , Reed Essick , G. S. Cabourn Davies , Patrick Brockill , Michael W. Coughlin , Shaon Ghosh , Patrick Godwin

In their fourth observing run, the LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA gravitational-wave observatories have found hundreds of new signals, but many are contaminated by non-Gaussian transient noise artefacts known as glitches. Left unaddressed, glitches can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-03 Mattia Emma , Ann-Kristin Malz , Adriana Dias , Gregory Ashton

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…

Compact object mergers which produce both detectable gravitational waves and electromagnetic emission can provide valuable insights into the neutron star equation of state, the tension in the Hubble constant, and the origin of the r-process…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Thomas C. Abbott , Eitan Buffaz , Nicholas Vieira , Miriam Cabero , Daryl Haggard , Ashish Mahabal , Jess McIver