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GW170104 – the third GW event!
Hi Gravity Spiers, Today we announced the detection of the third confidently-observed gravitational wave event – GW170104. It was detected on January 4 2017, as the name suggests! It’s the most distant black hole merger detected to date. We have a surprise waiting for you on the Gravity Spy project, try doing…
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Great Press for Gravity Spy!
The Gravity Spy project has recently been featured in a couple great places! Check out a recent article about the project in LIGO magazine as well as a shoutout for the project on NASA’s Education Express newsletter!
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New data from LIGO’s second observing run
Dear Gravity Spiers, Gravity Spy has recently hit a new milestone – over one million classifications! Thank you for all your hard work so far – we are humbled by you continued enthusiasm. All these classifications have helped uncover new glitch classes in the data from LIGO’s first observing run,…
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Glitches associated with phone accidentally left plugged in at LHO
Hi GSpy users, At LIGO Hanford we recently discovered that some of the telephones in the large experimental areas of LIGO were accidentally left switched on during a a couple of weeks of O2 data collection up to December 13 when they were switched off. At least once these…
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O2 has started – get ready for new glitches!
LIGO’s second observing run (O2) started this morning – on November 30th 2016 at 8 am, pacific time. Get ready for some new glitches! We’ll have new data from the engineering run (ER10) and the first few days of O2 by the end of the week. Who knows, maybe there’ll…
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Update after 1 week of launch
Hi everyone, It has been one week since our full public launch, and we couldn’t be happier with the awesome participation! We’ve had over 200,000 classifications already, and thanks to everyone’s work on classifications and on talk, we are starting to see new categories emerge through talk, which will be…
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Gravity Spy – now live!
We are excited to announce that the full implementation of Gravity Spy is now live! Please join us in the search for gravitational waves at www.gravityspy.org!
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Help to uncover gravitational waves with Gravity Spy!
We are very excited to have the beta test running for Gravity Spy, a Zooniverse project that combines human classifications with computer machine learning algorithms to help the LIGO team improve their search for gravitational waves. This project is run by the Gravity Spy team, made up of LIGO researchers…
