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.

arxiv:2306.04397 | INSPIRE

2) Follow-up analyses to the O3 LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA lensing searches

Justin Janquart, Mick Wright, Srashti Goyal, et al.

arxiv:2306.03827 | INSPIRE

3) LISA stellar-mass black hole searches with semi-coherent and particle-swarm methods

Diganta Bandopadhyay, Christopher J. Moore

arxiv:2305.18048 | INSPIRE

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.

arxiv:2305.17973 | INSPIRE

5) One to many: comparing single gravitational-wave events to astrophysical populations

Matthew Mould, Davide Gerosa, Marco Dall'Amico, et al.

arxiv:2305.18539 | INSPIRE

6) Two-Body Problem in Curved Spacetime: the Case of GW150914

Vladimir N. Yershov, Alexander A. Raikov, Elena A. Popova

INSPIRE

7) Frequency-Domain Distribution of Astrophysical Gravitational-Wave Backgrounds

Yonadav Barry Ginat, Robert Reischke, Ivan Rapoport, et al.

arxiv:2305.09372 | INSPIRE

8) QoQ: a Q-transform based test for Gravitational Wave transient events

Siddharth Soni, Ethan Marx, Erik Katsavounidis, et al.

arxiv:2305.08257 | INSPIRE

9) Constraining gravitational wave amplitude birefringence with GWTC-3

Thomas C.K. Ng, Maximiliano Isi, Kaze W.K. Wong, et al.

arxiv:2305.05844 | INSPIRE

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.

arxiv:2305.03090 | INSPIRE

11) Bimodal black-hole mass distribution and chirp masses of binary black-hole mergers

Fabian R.N. Schneider, Philipp Podsiadlowski, Eva Laplace

arxiv:2305.02380 | INSPIRE

12) Observable Gravitational Waves from Hyperkination in Palatini Gravity and Beyond

Samuel Sánchez López, Konstantinos Dimopoulos, Alexandros Karam, et al.

arxiv:2305.01399 | INSPIRE

13) Test of the Second Postulate of Relativity from Gravitational Wave Observations

Rajes Ghosh, Sreejith Nair, Lalit Pathak, et al.

arxiv:2304.14820 | INSPIRE

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.

arxiv:2305.00071 | INSPIRE

15) The directional isotropy of LIGO-Virgo binaries

Maximiliano Isi, Will M. Farr, Vijay Varma

arxiv:2304.13254 | INSPIRE

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

arxiv:2304.09396 | INSPIRE

17) Search for Postmerger Gravitational Waves from Binary Neutron Star Mergers Using a Matched-filtering Statistic

Andrzej Królak, Piotr Jaranowski, Michał Bejger, et al.

arxiv:2304.08171 | INSPIRE

18) Testing General Relativity With Gravitational Waves From Compact Binaries

Nan Jiang

INSPIRE

19) Gravitational wave constraints on Einstein-æther theory with LIGO/Virgo data

Kristen Schumacher, Scott Ellis Perkins, Ashley Shaw, et al.

arxiv:2304.06801 | INSPIRE

20) Spherically symmetric black hole spacetimes on hyperboloidal slices

Alex Vañó-Viñuales

arxiv:2304.05384 | INSPIRE

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

Report on github

Gravitational Wave Events (iPhone App)

Peter Kramer

Available from Apple

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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