Projects with GWOSC data

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Scientific Publications

Below are the most recent publications citing GWOSC, based on a query to INSPIRE.

1) MLGWSC-1: The first Machine Learning Gravitational-Wave Search Mock Data Challenge

Marlin B. Schäfer, Ondřej Zelenka, Alexander H. Nitz, et al.
arxiv:2209.11146 | INSPIRE

2) From inflation to black hole mergers and back again: Gravitational-wave data-driven constraints on inflationary scenarios with a first-principle model of primordial black holes across the QCD epoch

G. Franciolini, I. Musco, P. Pani, et al.
arxiv:2209.05959 | INSPIRE

3) The False Alarms induced by Gaussian Noise in Gravitational Wave Detectors

Gonzalo Morras, Jose Francisco Nuño Siles, Juan Garcia-Bellido, et al.
arxiv:2209.05475 | INSPIRE

4) Statistical validation of the detection of a sub-dominant quasi-normal mode in GW190521

Collin D. Capano, Jahed Abedi, Shilpa Kastha, et al.
arxiv:2209.00640 | INSPIRE

5) Data quality up to the third observing run of Advanced LIGO: Gravity Spy glitch classifications

J. Glanzer, S. Banagiri, S.B. Coughlin, et al.
arxiv:2208.12849 | INSPIRE

6) Accelerating Tests of General Relativity with Gravitational-Wave Signals using Hybrid Sampling

Noah E. Wolfe, Colm Talbot, Jacob Golomb
arxiv:2208.12872 | INSPIRE

7) IceCube search for neutrinos coincident with gravitational wave events from LIGO/Virgo run O3

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, et al.
arxiv:2208.09532 | INSPIRE

8) Impact of signal clusters in wide-band searches for continuous gravitational waves

Lorenzo Pierini, Pia Astone, Cristiano Palomba, et al.
arxiv:2209.09071 | INSPIRE

9) Do unequal-mass binary black hole systems have larger $\chi_\text{eff}$? Probing correlations with copulas in gravitational-wave astronomy

Christian Adamcewicz, Eric Thrane
arxiv:2208.03405 | INSPIRE

10) Concurrent estimation of noise and compact-binary signal parameters in gravitational-wave data

Cailin Plunkett, Sophie Hourihane, Katerina Chatziioannou
arxiv:2208.02291 | INSPIRE

11) Signatures of Non-thermal Dark Matter with Kination and Early Matter Domination: Gravitational Waves versus Laboratory Searches

Anish Ghoshal, Lucien Heurtier, Arnab Paul
arxiv:2208.01670 | INSPIRE

12) Density-clustering of continuous gravitational wave candidates from large surveys

Benjamin Steltner, Thorben Menne, Maria Alessandra Papa, et al.
arxiv:2207.14286 | INSPIRE

13) Boosting the efficiency of parametric detection with hierarchical neural networks

Jingkai Yan, Robert Colgan, John Wright, et al.
arxiv:2207.11583 | INSPIRE

14) Beyond general relativity: designing a template-based search for exotic gravitational wave signals

Harsh Narola, Soumen Roy, Anand S. Sengupta
arxiv:2207.10410 | INSPIRE

15) Probing the speed of gravity with LVK, LISA, and joint observations

Ian Harry, Johannes Noller
arxiv:2207.10096 | INSPIRE

16) A Comprehensive Analysis of the Gravitational Wave Events with the Stacked Hilbert–Huang Transform: From Compact Binary Coalescence to Supernova

Chin-Ping Hu, Lupin Chun-Che Lin, Kuo-Chuan Pan, et al.
arxiv:2207.06714 | INSPIRE

17) DeepSNR: A deep learning foundation for offline gravitational wave detection

Michael Andrews, Manfred Paulini, Luke Sellers, et al.
arxiv:2207.04749 | INSPIRE

18) Removing degeneracy and multimodality in gravitational wave source parameters

Javier Roulet, Seth Olsen, Jonathan Mushkin, et al.
arxiv:2207.03508 | INSPIRE

19) First gravitational-wave search for intermediate-mass black hole mergers with higher order harmonics

Koustav Chandra, Juan Calderón Bustillo, Archana Pai, et al.
arxiv:2207.01654 | INSPIRE

20) Topics in Compact Object Astrophysics and Fundamental Physics with Current and Future Gravitational Wave Observations

Zhenwei Lyu
INSPIRE

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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
Report on github

Gravitational Wave Events (iPhone App)

Peter Kramer
Available from Apple

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. Burko
Georgia 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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