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) Orbital eccentricity in a neutron star - black hole binary

Gonzalo Morras, Geraint Pratten, Patricia Schmidt

arxiv:2503.15393 | INSPIRE

2) 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.

arxiv:2503.15773 | INSPIRE

3) Gravitational-wave Extraction using Independent Component Analysis

Rika Shimomura, Yuuichi Tabe, Hisaaki Shinkai

arxiv:2503.14179 | INSPIRE

4) Time-domain phenomenological multipolar waveforms for aligned-spin binary black holes in elliptical orbits

Maria de Lluc Planas, Antoni Ramos-Buades, Cecilio García-Quirós, et al.

arxiv:2503.13062 | INSPIRE

5) Further constraining the neutron star-black hole merger rate

Ian Harry, Charlie Hoy

arxiv:2503.09773 | INSPIRE

6) Results from an Einstein@Home search for continuous gravitational waves from Cassiopeia A and Vela Jr. using LIGO O2 data

Jorge Morales, Jing Ming, Maria Alessandra Papa, et al.

arxiv:2503.09731 | INSPIRE

7) Echoes of Self-Interacting Dark Matter from Binary Black Hole Mergers

Amitayus Banik, Jeong Han Kim, Jun Seung Pi, et al.

arxiv:2503.08787 | INSPIRE

8) A directed continuous-wave search from Scorpius X-1 with the five-vector resampling technique

Francesco Amicucci, Paola Leaci, Pia Astone, et al.

arxiv:2503.07863 | INSPIRE

9) Impact of eccentricity and mean anomaly in numerical relativity mergers

Peter James Nee, Aldo Gamboa, Harald P. Pfeiffer, et al.

arxiv:2503.05422 | INSPIRE

10) Constraining dark-sector effects using gravitational waves from compact binary inspirals

Caroline B. Owen, Alexandria Tucker, Yonatan Kahn, et al.

arxiv:2503.04916 | INSPIRE

11) New gravitational waveform model for precessing binary neutron stars with double-spin effects

Marta Colleoni, Felip A. Ramis Vidal, Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel, et al.

INSPIRE

12) Fast and Precise Spectral Analysis for Dark Matter Searches with LIGO

Alexandre Göttel, Vivien Raymond

arxiv:2503.03293 | INSPIRE

13) Spherical black hole perturbations in EFT of scalar-tensor gravity with timelike scalar profile

Shinji Mukohyama, Kazufumi Takahashi, Keitaro Tomikawa, et al.

arxiv:2503.00520 | INSPIRE

14) Searching for additional structure and redshift evolution in the observed binary black hole population with a parametric time-dependent mass distribution

Vasco Gennari, Simone Mastrogiovanni, Nicola Tamanini, et al.

arxiv:2502.20445 | INSPIRE

15) Unified $\chi^2$ discriminators for gravitational wave searches from compact coalescing binaries

Sanjeev Dhurandhar

arxiv:2502.18051 | INSPIRE

16) Can wormholes mirror the quasinormal mode spectrum of Schwarzschild black holes?

Ciro De Simone, Vittorio De Falco, Salvatore Capozziello

arxiv:2502.12646 | INSPIRE

17) Sampling the full hierarchical population posterior distribution in gravitational-wave astronomy

Michele Mancarella, Davide Gerosa

arxiv:2502.12156 | INSPIRE

18) Exploring the Frontier of Transient Gravitational Wave Detection

Melissa Lopez

INSPIRE

19) Looking To The Horizon: Probing Evolution in the Black Hole Spectrum With GW Catalogs

Jam Sadiq, Thomas Dent, Ana Lorenzo Medina

arxiv:2502.06451 | INSPIRE

20) Quantum variational rewinding for gravitational wave detection

Benjamin Rodrigues de Miranda, Domenica Dibenedetto, Niels Neumann, et al.

INSPIRE

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

Report on github

Gravitational Wave Events (iPhone App)

Peter Kramer

Available from Apple

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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