Projects with GWOSC data
Some examples of projects using GWOSC data are shown on this page.
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Student Ashley Disbrow presents her work at the 2014 American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington, DC.

Student Emma Wadley created the installation art, titled Void (2016), shown above. Her artist statement includes this description: "I have used black paper to represent fear through the colour associated with death, shadows and the deepest nights ... The addition of light creates an eerie iridescence and the soundscape aims to unnerve and intrigue through otherworldly noise of Gravitational waves and the Mariana Trench."
Scientific Publications
Below are the most recent publications citing GWOSC, based on a query to INSPIRE.
1) Analysis of a subsolar-mass black hole trigger from the second observing run of Advanced LIGO
Gonzalo Morrás, José Francisco Nuño Siles, Alexis Menéndez-Vázquez, et al.
2) ArchEnemy: Removing scattered-light glitches from gravitational wave data
Arthur E. Tolley, Gareth S. Cabourn Davies, Ian W. Harry, et al.
3) Distinguishing binary black hole precessional morphologies with gravitational wave observations
Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel, Khun Sang Phukon, N.V. Krishnendu, et al.
4) Multiscale structure of the gravitational wave signal from GW150914 based on the nonextensivity $q$-triplet
C.V. da Silva, M.M.F. Nepomuceno, D.B. de Freitas
5) LSTM and CNN application for core-collapse supernova search in gravitational wave real data
Alberto Iess, Elena Cuoco, Filip Morawski, et al.
6) Search for gravitational-wave bursts in LIGO data at the Schenberg antenna sensitivity range
Julio Cesar Martins, Ik Siong Heng, Iara Tosta e Melo, et al.
7) Improving performance for gravitational-wave parameter inference with an efficient and highly-parallelized algorithm
J. Wofford, A.B. Yelikar, Hannah Gallagher, et al.
8) Impact of high-scale Seesaw and Leptogenesis on inflationary tensor perturbations as detectable gravitational waves
Maximilian Berbig, Anish Ghoshal
9) Intelligent noise suppression for gravitational wave observational data
Zhixiang Ren, He Wang, Yue Zhou, et al.
10) Tests of general relativity in the nonlinear regime: a parametrized plunge-merger-ringdown gravitational waveform model
Elisa Maggio, Hector O. Silva, Alessandra Buonanno, et al.
11) The TRAPUM L-band survey for pulsars in Fermi-LAT gamma-ray sources
C.J. Clark, R.P. Breton, E.D. Barr, et al.
12) From spacetime to nucleus - Probing nuclear physics and testing general relativity
Peter T.H. Pang, Afd Gravitational and Subatomic Physics
13) A roadmap of gravitational wave data analysis
Lorenzo Speri, Nikolaos Karnesis, Arianna I. Renzini, et al.
14) Improved binary black hole searches through better discrimination against noise transients
Sunil Choudhary, Sukanta Bose, Prasanna Joshi, et al.
15) Joint analysis of gravitational-wave and electromagnetic data of mergers: breaking an afterglow model degeneracy in GW170817 and in future events
Giulia Gianfagna, Luigi Piro, Francesco Pannarale, et al.
16) Search for subsolar-mass black hole binaries in the second part of Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's third observing run
R. Abbott, H. Abe, F. Acernese, et al.
17) Probing Ensemble Properties of Vortex-avalanche Pulsar Glitches with a Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background Search
Federico De Lillo, Jishnu Suresh, Antoine Depasse, et al.
18) Gravitational-wave event validation by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors. Procedures and challenges for the upcoming observing runs
Francesco Di Renzo
19) Black holes and nilmanifolds: quasinormal modes as the fingerprints of extra dimensions?
Anna Chrysostomou, Alan Cornell, Aldo Deandrea, et al.
20) Deep Learning Detection and Classification of Gravitational Waves from Neutron Star-Black Hole Mergers
Richard Qiu, Plamen Krastev, Kiranjyot Gill, et al.
Other Projects
Pioneer Academics student projects (2020)
Projects mentored by Eric Myers
Final papers: Vinh Nguyen | Pranjal Gehlot | Harry Yu | Xuanming (Rudy) Zhang | Yash Kothari
Pioneer Academics student projects (2019)
Projects mentored by Eric Myers
Final papers: Langqing Yi | Erim Esref HAKKI | Jiawei Qiu
Effect of Low Frequency Noise in Detection of Gravitational Waves
Baisakhi Mitra
Gravitational Wave Events (iPhone App)
Peter Kramer
Pioneer Academics student projects (2018)
Projects mentored by Eric Myers
Final papers: Jingyi Zhang | Yue Pan
Pioneer Academics student projects (2017)
Projects mentored by Eric Myers Final papers: Joalda Morancy | Kriti Verma
Evidence for Small-Strain Burst Sources Proliferating in Enhanced-LIGO Time Series Data
Stanley W. Wong and Baokun Gu Report on Google Docs
Calculating detection ranges for binary black holes
Bassel Heiba Code on github
GW150914 Kaggle Projects
Created by Elena Cuoco GW150914 data in Kaggle
Online Course - LIGO: Detecting Gravitational Waves
Created at Sonoma State University by Lynn Cominsky SSU LIGO Courses | 2016 Course
Pioneer Academics student projects
Projects mentored by Eric Myers Final papers: Zhehao Lu | Minqi Fu
Art Installation: Void
Emma Wadley See photo at right
Modified LIGO data analysis notebook
Valentin Baillard Azure | mybinder | github
Physics From Planet Earth homework problems
Joe Amato and Enrique (Kiko) Galvez See Gravitational Radiation 2 and Gravitational Radiation 3
Non-Gaussian noise and data analysis of laser interferometric gravitational wave detectors
Takahiro Yamamoto, Ph.D. Thesis See JGW-P1605355
Gravitational Wave Detection in the Introductory Lab
Lior M. BurkoGeorgia Gwinnett College, See arxiv:1602.04666
Pioneer Academics student projects
Projects mentored by Eric Myers Final papers: Jinghong Liang | William Li
Searching for Compact Binaries in LIGO Data
Shannon Wang Date Completed: September 2014 Report: Paper
Recovering S5 Burst Injections
Alexander Cole Date Completed: May 2014 Presentation: Paper | Slides
S5 Data Time Dependence of Duty Cycles and Spacetime Detection Volumes
Gary LaMotte Date Completed: April 2014 Presentation: Slides
Recovering Hardware Injections in LIGO S5 Data
Ashley Disbrow Date Completed: September 2013 Presentations: Poster | Slides
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