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The Gravitational-wave Transient Catalog (GWTC) is a cumulative set of events detected by LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA.
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Participants will receive a crash-course in gravitational-wave data analysis that includes lectures, software tutorials, and a data challenge.
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Open Data Workshop 2026

Open Data Workshop 2026

Registration is now open for the 2026 Open Data Workshop.

This free workshop provides a crash-course in GW data analysis. It will be held April, 20-23rd, 2026.

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O4a Open Data Release

O4a Open Data Release

The LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA collaborations have publicly released a new dataset from the first segment of their fourth observing run (O4a) covering Gravitational-Wave (GW) observations from May 24, 2023, …

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GW231123 Infographics
GW231123 Data Released

GW231123 Data Released

Read the notes for the release of the GW231123_135430 event!

GW231123 is the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed with gravitational waves. The merger produced a …

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