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) Searches for Binary Mergers with Sub-solar Mass Components in Data from the First Part of LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA's Fourth Observing Run

A.G. Abac, I. Abouelfettouh, F. Acernese, et al.

arxiv:2605.05444 | INSPIRE

2) Ringdown Analysis of GW250114 with Orthonormal Modes

Motoki Suzuki, Kei-ichiro Kubota, Soichiro Morisaki, et al.

arxiv:2605.03576 | INSPIRE

3) Normalizing flows for density estimation in multi-detector gravitational-wave searches

Sam Insley, Michael J. Williams, Rahul Dhurkunde, et al.

arxiv:2604.26581 | INSPIRE

4) Gauge Theoretic Signal Processing II: Zero-Latency Whitening for Early Warning Pipelines

James Kennington, Joshua Black, Zach Yarbrough, et al.

arxiv:2604.25116 | INSPIRE

5) From Big Bang Nucleosynthesis to Late-Time Acceleration in $f(Q,L_m)$ Gravity

Rajdeep Mazumdar, Kalyan Malakar, Kalyan Bhuyan

arxiv:2604.23793 | INSPIRE

6) ArchGEM: an Advanced Data Analysis Tool for Analyzing Scattered Light Noise in LIGO

Kaylah McGowan, Shania Nichols, Siddharth Soni, et al.

arxiv:2604.23416 | INSPIRE

7) Exploring Cosmic Evolution in Rényi Entropic Cosmology with Constraints from DESI DR2 BAO and GW Data

Rajdeep Mazumdar, Kalyan Malakar, Kalyan Bhuyan

arxiv:2604.22450 | INSPIRE

8) Mitigating Systematic Errors in Parameter Estimation of Binary Black Hole Mergers in O1-O3 LIGO-Virgo Data

Sumit Kumar, Max Melching, Frank Ohme, et al.

arxiv:2604.21859 | INSPIRE

9) Deterministic Trust Regions for Finite-Window Black-Hole Spectroscopy in GW250114

Ruiliang Li

arxiv:2604.17558 | INSPIRE

10) Gravitational-wave astronomy requires population-informed parameter estimation

Matthew Mould, Rodrigo Tenorio, Davide Gerosa

arxiv:2604.15885 | INSPIRE

11) Constraining the Pulsar Beaming Fraction with TeV-Selected Galactic Pulsar Wind Nebulae and unidentified TeV Sources

Takumi Shimasue, Shota Kisaka, Aya Bamba, et al.

arxiv:2604.16187 | INSPIRE

12) Improved Constraints on Non-Kerr Deviations from Binary Black Hole Inspirals Using GWTC-4 Data

Debtroy Das, Swarnim Shashank, Cosimo Bambi

arxiv:2604.15965 | INSPIRE

13) Measuring the rate of glitches in interferometric gravitational wave detectors with a hierarchical Bayesian model

Gregory Ashton, Colm Talbot, Andrew Lundgren, et al.

arxiv:2604.16039 | INSPIRE

14) A First Investigation of Repeated-Signal Localization of Strongly Lensed Gravitational Waves for Multimessenger Astronomy

Alvin K.Y. Li, Otto A. Hannuksela

arxiv:2604.16561 | INSPIRE

15) Las Cumbres Observatory Gravitational-Wave Follow-up in O3 and O4: Strengths and Weaknesses of a Rapid Response Galaxy Targeted Strategy

Ido Keinan, Iair Arcavi, D. Andrew Howell, et al.

arxiv:2604.15129 | INSPIRE

16) Joint Detection and Characterization of the Standing Accretion Shock Instability for Core-Collapse Supernovae with cWB XP

Vicente Sierra, Zidu Lin, Michelle Zanolin, et al.

arxiv:2604.15500 | INSPIRE

17) Basilic: An end-to-end pipeline for Bayesian burst inference and model classification in gravitational-wave data

Iuliu Cuceu, Marie Anne Bizouard

arxiv:2604.13839 | INSPIRE

18) Investigating the effect of sensitivity of KAGRA on sky localization of gravitational-wave sources from compact binary coalescences

Alvin K.Y. Li, Peony K.K. Lai, Elwin K.Y. Li, et al.

arxiv:2604.13580 | INSPIRE

19) Could the high-mass black holes from gravitational-wave observations be explained by lensing?

Ritesh Harshe, R. Prasad, Parameswaran Ajith

arxiv:2604.14247 | INSPIRE

20) Emergent structure in the binary black hole mass distribution and implications for population-based cosmology

Vasco Gennari, Tom Bertheas, Nicola Tamanini

arxiv:2604.14290 | 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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