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Welcome to the Gravity Spy blog where we chat about glitches, gravitational-wave detection and all things Gravity Spy!
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Diagnosing the Tomte glitch
Hi everyone! Recently, some of LIGO’s detchar experts investigated the connection between Tomte glitches from Gravity Spy and the bias voltage on a particular circuit.… Read more
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Engineering Run 13
Hey GravitySpy-ers, We are excited to bring you new data from our Engineering Run 13! Data taken during Engineering Runs are meant to test not… Read more
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Introducing Virgo and a new workflow structure!
Hey Gravity Spiers, We are really excited to finally introduce a new detector, workflow structure, and tool this week. First, we present a new workflow… Read more
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Introducing Gravity Spy Tools
Gravity Spy Tools With the introduction of the new Virgo workflow, we anticipate there being a number of novel glitches, some that will look like… Read more
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Introducing the Sounds of Glitches
Hello Gravity Spiers! At long last and after much demand, we have added audio examples of what the Gravity Spy glitches sound like to our… Read more
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Which glitches are most common at LIGO Hanford and Livingston?
Thanks to the hard work by GravitySpy Citizen Scientists, we now have more than 53,000 retired images, images that have had enough consistent classifications by… Read more
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Are blips and koi fish related?
There is some debate on whether Koi fish and blip glitches are part of the same morphology distinguished mainly by loudness or amplitude of the… Read more
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Multi-Messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger
Hey Gravity Spy Team! On August 17, 2017, ripples traveling along the fabric of spacetime passed through a small planet after more than a 100… Read more
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LIGO bags its 4th binary black hole, with the help of Virgo!
Hello Gravity Spy team, As you may have heard, the LIGO and Virgo detector network has found its first triple-coincident signal! This signal, GW170814, is… Read more
