Poster Title
P-32 Classifying Glitch Types with Gravity Spy: How Everyone Can Help Improve LIGO
Abstract
Gravity Spy is an online resource that anyone can use to help advance LIGO gravitational wave research. It uses the power of human pattern recognition to classify different types of glitches that occur in the LIGO detectors, allowing LIGO scientists to find the origin of these glitches and to correct the issue in the detectors that is causing them. At present, the project is 14% complete, with over 16,000 citizen scientist volunteers working daily since October 2016. I am currently working on Level 6: Virgo, where I identify glitches from the Virgo interferometer in Italy.
Start Date
2-28-2020 2:30 PM
P-32 Classifying Glitch Types with Gravity Spy: How Everyone Can Help Improve LIGO
Gravity Spy is an online resource that anyone can use to help advance LIGO gravitational wave research. It uses the power of human pattern recognition to classify different types of glitches that occur in the LIGO detectors, allowing LIGO scientists to find the origin of these glitches and to correct the issue in the detectors that is causing them. At present, the project is 14% complete, with over 16,000 citizen scientist volunteers working daily since October 2016. I am currently working on Level 6: Virgo, where I identify glitches from the Virgo interferometer in Italy.
Acknowledgments
J.N. Andrews Honors Scholar
Mentor: Tiffany Summerscales, Physics