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) dot-PE: Sampler-free gravitational wave inference using matrix multiplication
Jonathan Mushkin, Javier Roulet, Barak Zackay, et al.
2) RADAR-Radio Afterglow Detection and AI-driven Response: A Federated Framework for Gravitational Wave Event Follow-Up
Parth Patel, Alessandra Corsi, E.A. Huerta, et al.
3) Harnessing PyStoch potential: detecting continuous gravitational waves from interesting supernova remnant targets
Claudio Salvadore, Iuri La Rosa, Paola Leaci, et al.
4) Hiding Out at the Low End: No Gap and a Peak in the Black-Hole Mass Spectrum
Anarya Ray, Will Farr, Vicky Kalogera
5) Mining the Alerts: A Preliminary Catalog of Compact Binaries from the Fourth Observing Run
Aleyna Akyüz, Alex Correia, Jada Garofalo, et al.
6) Improving gravitational wave search sensitivity with TIER: Trigger Inference using Extended strain Representation
Digvijay Wadekar, Arush Pimpalkar, Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung, et al.
7) A case study of GW190425 for classifying binary neutron star versus binary black hole mergers and constraining asymmetric dark matter with gravitational wave detectors
Sanika Khadkikar, Divya Singh
8) Peaking into the abyss: Characterizing the merger of equatorial-eccentric-geodesic plunges in rotating black holes
Guglielmo Faggioli, Maarten van de Meent, Alessandra Buonanno, et al.
9) Improved Binary Black Hole Search Discriminator from the Singular Value Decomposition of Non-Gaussian Noise Transients
Tathagata Ghosh, Sukanta Bose, Sanjeev Dhurandhar, et al.
10) Inferring the neutron star equation of state with nuclear-physics informed semiparametric models
Sunny Ng, Isaac Legred, Lami Suleiman, et al.
11) A search for extra polarisations using a Gaussian process in Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalogue 3
Shun Yin Cheung, Lachlan Passenger, Paul D. Lasky, et al.
12) PhenomXPNR: An improved gravitational wave model linking precessing inspirals and NR-calibrated merger-ringdown
Eleanor Hamilton, Marta Colleoni, Jonathan E. Thompson, et al.
13) A Gaussian process framework for testing general relativity with gravitational waves
Lachlan Passenger, Shun Yin Cheung, Nir Guttman, et al.
14) Effective Field Theory of Perturbations on Arbitrary Black Hole Backgrounds with Spacelike Scalar Profile
Shinji Mukohyama, Emeric Seraille, Kazufumi Takahashi, et al.
15) Identification of Noise-Associated Glitches in KAGRA O3GK with Hveto
T. Akutsu, M. Ando, M. Aoumi, et al.
16) Adding equatorial-asymmetric effects for spin-precessing binaries into the SEOBNRv5PHM waveform model
Héctor Estellés, Alessandra Buonanno, Raffi Enficiaud, et al.
17) Validating Sequential Monte Carlo for Gravitational-Wave Inference
Michael J. Williams, Minas Karamanis, Yilin Luo, et al.
18) Primordial Gravitational Waves as Complementary Probe of Dark Matter Indirect Detection
Anish Ghoshal, Debarun Paul, Supratik Pal
19) Direct Inference of Nuclear Equation-of-State Parameters from Gravitational-Wave Observations
Brendan T. Reed, Cassandra L. Armstrong, Rahul Somasundaram, et al.
20) Black Hole - Neutron Star and Binary Neutron Star Mergers from Population III and II stars
Benedetta Mestichelli, Michela Mapelli, Filippo Santoliquido, 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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