Community Catalog Information
The GWOSC Event Portal provides access to a database of known gravitational-wave events. Before 2025, the database only included events published by the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA (LVK) collaboration. Here, we set out guidelines for how catalogs from authors outside the LVK collaboration can be added to the Event Portal database. By taking this step, we hope to better reflect the current state of knowledge about gravitational-wave transients, and so better serve the scientific community.
Publishing Community Catalogs on GWOSC
You can learn more about the possibility to add your community catalogs to the Event Portal in the GWOSC Community Catalogs Guidelines document.
Community Catalogs development details are provided on GitHub where the JSON schema is specified, as well as test codes and notebooks for validation of the JSON file format. This provides the standardization for sharing a new community catalog with GWOSC for injestion, when the criteria outlined in the guidelines are satisfied.
Current List of Community Catalogs
| Release Name | Description |
|---|---|
| IAS-O3a | The IAS-O3a catalog contains 42 binary black hole mergers in the public data from the first half of the third observing run (O3a) of advanced LIGO and advanced Virgo. Of these, 10 were reported there for the first time. Details and additional data products are linked from the documentation page. |
Release Notes
- Released: May 5th, 2025