30 April 2024 to 3 May 2024
Amsterdam, Hotel CASA
Europe/Amsterdam timezone

Generative models for transient noise studies in Gravitational Waves detectors

2 May 2024, 16:00
20m
UvA 2-3-4, Hotel CASA

UvA 2-3-4, Hotel CASA

Speakers

Dr Francesco Sarandrea (INFN)Dr Lorenzo Asprea (INFN)

Description

Non-Gaussian transient noise artifacts, commonly referred to as glitches, are one of the most challenging limitations in the study of gravitational-wave interferometer data due to their similarities with astrophysical sources signals in the time and frequency domains. Therefore, exploring novel methods to recover physical information from data corrupted by glitches is essential. In our work, we focus on modeling and generating glitches using deep generative algorithms. Namely, we employ a Pix2Pix-like architecture, a family of Generative Adversarial Networks for data-to-data translation. This strategy involves mapping glitches from carefully chosen auxiliary channels (uncorrelated with the physical signals) to the 'strain' (main) channel, allowing us to subtract the generated noise from the physically interesting data. In this talk, we outline our method and present some preliminary results.

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