Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Activities in Korea

  • Published : 2014.04.10

Abstract

Many techniques for data analysis also based on gaussian noise assumption which is often valid in various situations. However, the sensitivity of gravitational wave searches are limited by their non-gaussian and non-stationary noise. We introduce various on-going efforts to overcome this limitation in Korean Gravitational Wave Group. First, artificial neural networks are applied to discriminate non-gaussian noise artefacts and gravitational-wave signals using auxiliary channels of a gravitational wave detector. Second, viability of applying Hilbert-Huang transform is investigated to deal with non-stationary data of gravitational wave detectors. We also report progress in acceleration of low-latency gravitational search using GPGPU.

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