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) Gravitational Waves from Neutron Stars: Detection Prospects and Inferences for Two Distinct Types of Remnants
J.A. Font
2) Joint inference for gravitational wave signals and glitches using a data-informed glitch model
Ann-Kristin Malz, John Veitch
3) Dynamical von Zeipel-Lidov-Kozai Oscillations of a Binary on a Spherical Orbit around a Rotating Supermassive Black Hole
Kei-ichi Maeda, Hirotada Okawa
4) Gravitational waves from eccentric binary neutron star mergers: Systematic biases induced by quasi-circular templates
Giulia Huez, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Matteo Breschi, et al.
5) On Validating Angular Power Spectral Models for the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background Without Distributional Assumptions
Xiangyu Zhang, Erik Floden, Hongru Zhao, et al.
6) Eccentric or circular? A reanalysis of binary black hole gravitational wave events for orbital eccentricity signatures
Maria de Lluc Planas, Antoni Ramos-Buades, Cecilio García-Quirós, et al.
7) Quasinormal Modes and Greybody Factors of Scalar Field Perturbations in the NED Corrected Charged Black Hole Spacetime
Jie Liang, Dong Liu, Zheng-Wen Long
8) Vector induced Gravitational Waves sourced by Primordial Magnetic Fields
Arko Bhaumik, Theodoros Papanikolaou, Anish Ghoshal
9) A parametrized spin-precessing inspiral-merger-ringdown waveform model for tests of general relativity
Lorenzo Pompili, Elisa Maggio, Hector O. Silva, et al.
10) Astrophysical Priors on the Properties of Observed Black Hole–Neutron Star Mergers
Ya-Wen Xue, Ying Qin, Liang Yuan, et al.
11) Rapid inference and comparison of gravitational-wave population models with neural variational posteriors
Matthew Mould, Noah E. Wolfe, Salvatore Vitale
12) How much spin wandering can continuous gravitational wave search algorithms handle?
Julian B. Carlin, Andrew Melatos
13) Sky localization of GW170104 and reconstruction of the gravitational-wave polarization modes
Osvaldo M. Moreschi
14) Localization of GW190521 and reconstruction of the spin-2 gravitational-wave polarization modes
Osvaldo M. Moreschi
15) Generalized parameter-space metrics for continuous gravitational-wave searches
P.B. Covas, R. Prix
16) Improving the Detection of Gravitational-Wave Signals in Real Time
Arthur Tolley
17) Searches for primordial black holes using gravitational waves
Marc Andrés Carcasona
18) Modeling matter(s) in SEOBNRv5THM: Generating fast and accurate effective-one-body waveforms for spin-aligned binary neutron stars
Marcus Haberland, Alessandra Buonanno, Jan Steinhoff
19) Orbital eccentricity in a neutron star - black hole binary
Gonzalo Morras, Geraint Pratten, Patricia Schmidt
20) Search for continuous gravitational waves from neutron stars in five globular clusters with a phase-tracking hidden Markov model in the third LIGO observing run
L. Dunn, A. Melatos, P. Clearwater, et al.
Other Projects
Student projects at SUNY New Paltz (Starting in 2021)
Student projects mentored by Eric Myers
Final papers: Spy Hill Research
Pioneer Academics student projects (2015-2021)
Student projects mentored by Eric Myers
Final Papers: Spy Hill Research
Effect of Low Frequency Noise in Detection of Gravitational Waves
Baisakhi Mitra
Gravitational Wave Events (iPhone App)
Peter Kramer
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
Art Installation: Void
Emma Wadley See photo above
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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