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) Structure formation with primordial black holes to alleviate early star formation tension revealed by JWST

P.E. Colazo, F. Stasyszyn, N. Padilla

arxiv:2404.13110 | INSPIRE

2) Even-parity stability of hairy black holes in $U(1)$ gauge-invariant scalar-vector-tensor theories

Chao Zhang, Ryotaro Kase

arxiv:2404.11910 | INSPIRE

3) Constraining the Modified Friction in Gravitational Wave Propagation with Precessing Black Hole Binaries

Chunbo Lin, Tao Zhu, Rui Niu, et al.

arxiv:2404.11245 | INSPIRE

4) Robust parameter estimation within minutes on gravitational wave signals from binary neutron star inspirals

Thibeau Wouters, Peter T.H. Pang, Tim Dietrich, et al.

arxiv:2404.11397 | INSPIRE

5) Sky location of Massive Black Hole Binaries in the foreground of Galactic white dwarf binaries

Pan Guo, Hong-Bo Jin, Cong-Feng Qiao, et al.

arxiv:2404.11505 | INSPIRE

6) Technical Noise, Data Quality, and Calibration Requirements for Next-Generation Gravitational-Wave Science

Elenna Capote, Louis Dartez, Derek Davis

arxiv:2404.04761 | INSPIRE

7) Quasinormal modes of a nonsingular spherically symmetric black hole effective model with holonomy corrections

Douglas M. Gingrich

arxiv:2404.04447 | INSPIRE

8) Binary Neutron Star mergers in the multi-messenger era: from astrophysics to cosmology

Giulia Gianfagna

INSPIRE

9) A new semi-coherent targeted search for continuous gravitational waves from pulsars in binary systems

Lorenzo Mirasola, Paola Leaci, Pia Astone, et al.

arxiv:2404.03721 | INSPIRE

10) Searching for binary black hole sub-populations in gravitational wave data using binned Gaussian processes

Anarya Ray, Ignacio Magaña Hernandez, Katelyn Breivik, et al.

arxiv:2404.03166 | INSPIRE

11) Detecting Gravitational Wave Memory in the Next Galactic Core-Collapse Supernova

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

arxiv:2404.02131 | INSPIRE

12) Numerical relativity surrogate models for exotic compact objects: the case of head-on mergers of equal-mass Proca stars

Raimon Luna, Miquel Llorens-Monteagudo, Ana Lorenzo-Medina, et al.

arxiv:2404.01395 | INSPIRE

13) Kicking time back in black-hole mergers: Ancestral masses, spins, birth recoils and hierarchical-formation viability of GW190521

Carlos Araújo Álvarez, Henry W.Y. Wong, Juan Calderón Bustillo

arxiv:2404.00720 | INSPIRE

14) A machine-learning pipeline for real-time detection of gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences

Ethan Marx, William Benoit, Alec Gunny, et al.

arxiv:2403.18661 | INSPIRE

15) Rapid neutron star equation of state inference with Normalising Flows

Jordan McGinn, Arunava Mukherjee, Jessica Irwin, et al.

arxiv:2403.17462 | INSPIRE

16) Impact of noise transients on gravitational-wave burst detection efficiency of the BayesWave pipeline with multi-detector networks

Yi Shuen C. Lee, Margaret Millhouse, Andrew Melatos

arxiv:2403.16837 | INSPIRE

17) Searching for gravitational-wave signals from precessing black hole binaries with the GstLAL pipeline

Stefano Schmidt, Sarah Caudill, Jolien D.E. Creighton, et al.

arxiv:2403.17186 | INSPIRE

18) The Mass Density of Merging Binary Black Holes Over Cosmic Time

Aryanna Schiebelbein-Zwack, Maya Fishbach

arxiv:2403.17156 | INSPIRE

19) Gravitational Wave Searches for Post-Merger Remnants of GW170817 and GW190425

Benjamin Grace, Karl Wette, Susan Scott

arxiv:2403.11392 | INSPIRE

20) Inspiral Time Probability Distribution for Two Black Holes Captured by Emitting Gravitational Radiation

Don N. Page

arxiv:2403.10804 | 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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