The LIGO Open Science Center

By Michele Vallisneri, J. Kanner, Roy Williams, A. Weinstein, B. Stephens. 2014

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The LIGO Open Science Center (LOSC) fulfills LIGO's commitment to release, archive, and serve LIGO data in a broadly accessible way to the scientific community and to the public, and to provide the information and tools necessary to understand and use the data. In August 2014, the LOSC published the full dataset from Initial LIGO's “S5” run at design sensitivity, the first such large-scale release and a valuable testbed to explore the use of LIGO data by non-LIGO researchers and by the public, and to help teach gravitational-wave data analysis to students across the world. In addition to serving the S5 data, the LOSC web portal (losc.ligo.org) now offers documentation, data-location and data-quality queries, tutorials and example code, and more. We review the mission and plans of the LOSC, focusing on the S5 data release.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Oceanography

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Prospects for Observing and Localizing Gravitational-Wave Transients with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo (2013, unknown): “org [108].”
Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA (2013, background): “…we conservatively estimate that a network SNR threshold of ρc 12 is required for a FAR below ∼ 10−2 yr−1 in the advanced-detector era (Abadie 6 Strain data from published probable events in O1 and O2 are publicly available from the LIGO Open Science Center losc.ligo.org (Vallisneri et al. 2015).”
Dark Energy in Light of Multi-Messenger Gravitational-Wave Astronomy (2018, background): “From the first two events, GW150914 [13] and GW151226 [14], one can already constraints several theories as detailed in Ref.”
Search for Gravitational Lensing Signatures in LIGO-Virgo Binary Black Hole Events (2019, methodology): “We use publicly available noise power spectra of LIGO Hanford and LIGO Livingston in O1 (Vallisneri et al. 2015) and O2 (Kissel 2017b,a).”
4-OGC: Catalog of Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Mergers (2021, methodology): “However, data around GW170608 and GW190814 that were made available separately from the bulk data release are included (Vallisneri et al. 2015). gravitational-wave signal, we use a combination of TaylorF2 (for BNS sources; Sathyaprakash & Dhurandhar 1991; Droz et al. 1999; Blanchet 2002; Faye et…”
Open data from the first and second observing runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo (2019, unknown): “Public access to these data along with extensive documentation and usage instructions are provided through the Gravitational Wave Open Science Center (GWOSC) [21] at http: //gw-openscience.”
2-OGC: Open Gravitational-wave Catalog of Binary Mergers from Analysis of Public Advanced LIGO and Virgo Data (2019, methodology): “We remove candidates where the instrument state indicates the data may be adversely affected by instrumental or environment noise artefacts as indicated by the Gravitational-Wave Open Science Center (GWOSC) (Abbott et al. 2016b, 2018; Vallisneri et al. 2015).”