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 HEP.

1) A stepping stone toward detecting gravitational wave memory: a cumulative analysis with the full $(\ell=2, m=0)$ spherical harmonic using events from GWTC-4.0 and GWTC-5.0

Maria Rosselló-Sastre, Sascha Husa, Yumeng Xu, et al.

arxiv:2607.04909 | INSPIRE

2) Identifying lensed gravitational waves with physics-informed posterior learning

Tian-Yang Sun, Xiao Guo, Jing-Fei Zhang, et al.

arxiv:2607.03885 | INSPIRE

3) A population of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA mergers happening inside active galactic nuclei

Dhruv Kumar, Alejandro Torres-Orjuela

arxiv:2607.03674 | INSPIRE

4) Higher-order noise statistics restore Heisenberg scaling under collective dephasing

Jiaxin Liu, Xing Heng, Zuoxian Wang, et al.

arxiv:2607.02962 | INSPIRE

5) nmma: An extended Bayesian framework for Nuclear Multimessenger Astronomy in the Era of Next-Generation Detectors

Henrik Rose, Hauke Koehn, Thibeau Wouters, et al.

arxiv:2607.03045 | INSPIRE

6) No Evidence for Superradiant Axions in LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA GWTC-5 Binary Black Hole Spins

Orion Ning, Benjamin R. Safdi, Catherine Welch

arxiv:2607.01317 | INSPIRE

7) AI-enabled gravitational-waves searches for binary neutron stars at optimal sensitivity

Bhavya Gupta, Deep Chatterjee, William Benoit, et al.

arxiv:2607.01372 | INSPIRE

8) Joint population and strong-lensing inference for resolved gravitational-wave events probes the black-hole merger rate beyond the peak of star formation

Matthew Mould

arxiv:2606.30144 | INSPIRE

9) Joint inference of line-of-sight acceleration and orbital eccentricity in neutron-star--black-hole binaries

Lorenzo Pompili, Aldo Gamboa, Alessandra Buonanno

arxiv:2606.28156 | INSPIRE

10) Constraints on Line-of-Sight Acceleration from O1-O4

Labani Roy, Alexander H. Nitz

arxiv:2606.25304 | INSPIRE

11) Constant-Roll Inflation: Analytical Formulae for Power Spectrum and Implications for Induced Gravitational Waves

Hayato Motohashi, Shi Pi, Yuichiro Tada, et al.

arxiv:2606.24111 | INSPIRE

12) Intrinsic handedness in O1-O4a black-hole mergers: probing orbital precession, remnant retention in dense environments and cosmological mirror asymmetry

Juan Calderón Bustillo, Adrián del Rio, Nicolás Sanchis-Gual, et al.

arxiv:2606.17752 | INSPIRE

13) The Chirp-Mass Ladder: A New Rung Emerges

Vaibhav Tiwari

arxiv:2606.18081 | INSPIRE

14) CASPER: Interpretable ResNet based Classifier with FastShap Explainer for Gravitational Wave Detection

R. Rai, R. Verma

arxiv:2606.17214 | INSPIRE

15) Linear Gravitational Wave Memory Through the Window of Core-Collapse Supernovae

Colter J. Richardson, Anthony Mezzacappa, Haakon Andresen, et al.

arxiv:2606.14670 | INSPIRE

16) Fortifying gravitational-wave population inference with normalizing flows

Christian Adamcewicz, Hugh McDougall, Paul D. Lasky, et al.

arxiv:2606.14229 | INSPIRE

17) Artifact-Conditioned Interval Diagnostics for Flow-Matching Neural Posterior Estimation in a Controlled Gravitational-Wave Benchmark

Zhi Luo, Qi-Qin Jing

arxiv:2606.12496 | INSPIRE

18) Optimising ultra-light dark matter searches with ground-based interferometers

Paola C.M. Delgado, Ornella J. Piccinni, Federico R. Urban

arxiv:2606.09210 | INSPIRE

19) Line-of-sight acceleration in compact binaries with higher harmonics and eccentricity

Soumen Roy, Justin Janquart

arxiv:2606.08838 | INSPIRE

20) Short Gravitational-Wave Transients as Probes of Cosmic Domain Walls

Tore Boybeyi, Doga Veske, David Maibach

arxiv:2606.06478 | INSPIRE

Other Projects

GWeasy: Surfing Spacetime’s Waves

Software tools for GW data by Shantanusinh Parmar

GWeasy Home Page

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

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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