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) A rapid method for preliminary identification of subthreshold strongly lensed counterparts to superthreshold gravitational-wave events
Srashti Goyal, Shasvath Kapadia, Jean-Rene Cudell, et al.
2) Follow-up analyses to the O3 LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA lensing searches
Justin Janquart, Mick Wright, Srashti Goyal, et al.
3) LISA stellar-mass black hole searches with semi-coherent and particle-swarm methods
Diganta Bandopadhyay, Christopher J. Moore
4) ICAROGW: A python package for inference of astrophysical population properties of noisy, heterogeneous and incomplete observations
Simone Mastrogiovanni, Grégoire Pierra, Stéphane Perriès, et al.
5) One to many: comparing single gravitational-wave events to astrophysical populations
Matthew Mould, Davide Gerosa, Marco Dall'Amico, et al.
6) Two-Body Problem in Curved Spacetime: the Case of GW150914
Vladimir N. Yershov, Alexander A. Raikov, Elena A. Popova
7) Frequency-Domain Distribution of Astrophysical Gravitational-Wave Backgrounds
Yonadav Barry Ginat, Robert Reischke, Ivan Rapoport, et al.
8) QoQ: a Q-transform based test for Gravitational Wave transient events
Siddharth Soni, Ethan Marx, Erik Katsavounidis, et al.
9) Constraining gravitational wave amplitude birefringence with GWTC-3
Thomas C.K. Ng, Maximiliano Isi, Kaze W.K. Wong, et al.
10) Spectrogram correlated stacking: A novel time-frequency domain analysis of the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background
Ramit Dey, Luís Felipe Longo Micchi, Suvodip Mukherjee, et al.
11) Bimodal black-hole mass distribution and chirp masses of binary black-hole mergers
Fabian R.N. Schneider, Philipp Podsiadlowski, Eva Laplace
12) Observable Gravitational Waves from Hyperkination in Palatini Gravity and Beyond
Samuel Sánchez López, Konstantinos Dimopoulos, Alexandros Karam, et al.
13) Test of the Second Postulate of Relativity from Gravitational Wave Observations
Rajes Ghosh, Sreejith Nair, Lalit Pathak, et al.
14) A Unified $p_\mathrm{astro}$ for Gravitational Waves: Consistently Combining Information from Multiple Search Pipelines
Sharan Banagiri, Christopher P.L. Berry, Gareth S. Cabourn Davies, et al.
15) The directional isotropy of LIGO-Virgo binaries
Maximiliano Isi, Will M. Farr, Vijay Varma
16) The spin and mass ratio affects the gravitational waveforms of binary black hole mergers with a total system mass of 12-130 $\rm{M}_\odot$
İsmail Özbakır, Kadri Yakut
17) Search for Postmerger Gravitational Waves from Binary Neutron Star Mergers Using a Matched-filtering Statistic
Andrzej Królak, Piotr Jaranowski, Michał Bejger, et al.
18) Testing General Relativity With Gravitational Waves From Compact Binaries
Nan Jiang
19) Gravitational wave constraints on Einstein-æther theory with LIGO/Virgo data
Kristen Schumacher, Scott Ellis Perkins, Ashley Shaw, et al.
20) Spherically symmetric black hole spacetimes on hyperboloidal slices
Alex Vañó-Viñuales
Other Projects
Pioneer Academics student projects (2020)
Projects mentored by Eric Myers
Final papers: Vinh Nguyen | Pranjal Gehlot | Harry Yu | Xuanming (Rudy) Zhang | Yash Kothari
Pioneer Academics student projects (2019)
Projects mentored by Eric Myers
Final papers: Langqing Yi | Erim Esref HAKKI | Jiawei Qiu
Effect of Low Frequency Noise in Detection of Gravitational Waves
Baisakhi Mitra
Gravitational Wave Events (iPhone App)
Peter Kramer
Pioneer Academics student projects (2018)
Projects mentored by Eric Myers
Final papers: Jingyi Zhang | Yue Pan
Pioneer Academics student projects (2017)
Projects mentored by Eric Myers Final papers: Joalda Morancy | Kriti Verma
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
Pioneer Academics student projects
Projects mentored by Eric Myers Final papers: Zhehao Lu | Minqi Fu
Art Installation: Void
Emma Wadley See photo at right
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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