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) Chaotic von Zeipel-Lidov-Kozai Oscillations of Binary System around Rotating Supermassive Black Hole

Kei-ichi Maeda, Priti Gupta, Hirotada Okawa

arxiv:2309.12096 | INSPIRE

2) Pulsational pair-instability supernovae in gravitational-wave and electromagnetic transients

D.D. Hendriks, L.A.C. van Son, M. Renzo, et al.

arxiv:2309.09339 | INSPIRE

3) Prompt sky localization of compact binary sources using meshfree approximation

Lalit Pathak, Sanket Munishwar, Amit Reza, et al.

arxiv:2309.07012 | INSPIRE

4) How robust are gravitational wave predictions from cosmological phase transitions?

Peter Athron, Lachlan Morris, Zhongxiu Xu

arxiv:2309.05474 | INSPIRE

5) Topological Dark Matter in LIGO Data

Lavinia Heisenberg, David Maibach, Doğa Veske

arxiv:2309.05093 | INSPIRE

6) First constraints on compact binary environments from LIGO-Virgo data

Giada Caneva Santoro, Soumen Roy, Rodrigo Vicente, et al.

arxiv:2309.05061 | INSPIRE

7) Fast Bayesian gravitational wave parameter estimation using convolutional neural networks

M. Andrés-Carcasona, M. Martinez, Ll.M. Mir

arxiv:2309.04303 | INSPIRE

8) Spectroscopy for asymmetric binary black hole mergers

Jahed Abedi, Collin D. Capano, Shilpa Kastha, et al.

arxiv:2309.03121 | INSPIRE

9) Searching for gravitational wave echoes from black hole binary events in the third observing run of LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA collaborations

Nami Uchikata, Tatsuya Narikawa, Hiroyuki Nakano, et al.

arxiv:2309.01894 | INSPIRE

10) Population synthesis and parameter estimation of neutron stars with continuous gravitational waves and third-generation detectors

Yuhan Hua, Karl Wette, Susan M. Scott, et al.

arxiv:2309.01133 | INSPIRE

11) First Targeted Search for Gravitational Waves from Highly Spinning Light Compact Binaries

Yi-Fan Wang, Alexander H. Nitz

arxiv:2308.16173 | INSPIRE

12) Detecting single gravitons with quantum sensing

Germain Tobar, Sreenath K. Manikandan, Thomas Beitel, et al.

arxiv:2308.15440 | INSPIRE

13) Measurements of the Hubble constant from combinations of supernovae and radio quasars

Tonghua Liu, Xiyan Yang, Zisheng Zhang, et al.

arxiv:2308.15731 | INSPIRE

14) Mitigating the effect of population model uncertainty on strong lensing Bayes factor using nonparametric methods

Damon H.T. Cheung, Stefano Rinaldi, Martina Toscani, et al.

arxiv:2308.12182 | INSPIRE

15) PycWB: A User-friendly, Modular, and Python-based Framework for Gravitational Wave Unmodelled Search

Yumeng Xu, Shubhanshu Tiwari, Marco Drago

arxiv:2308.08639 | INSPIRE

16) Efficient Reduced Order Quadrature Construction Algorithms for Fast Gravitational Wave Inference

Gonzalo Morras, Jose Francisco Nuno Siles, Juan Garcia-Bellido

arxiv:2307.16610 | INSPIRE

17) The effect of the gravitational constant variation on the propagation of gravitational waves

Jiachen An, Yadong Xue, Zhoujian Cao, et al.

arxiv:2307.15382 | INSPIRE

18) LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA's Oldest Black Holes: Probing star formation at cosmic noon with GWTC-3

Maya Fishbach, Lieke van Son

arxiv:2307.15824 | INSPIRE

19) Classifying Gravitational Waves with GMM and LMM techniques

Sourav Dutta, Shwetabh Biswas, Reetanjali Moharana, et al.

INSPIRE

20) The first joint observation by KAGRA with GEO 600

R. Abbott, H. Abe, F. Acernese, 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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