GW Open Data Workshop #2: Hands-on exercises

Material to support the GW Open Data Workshop #2, April 8-10, 2019

Software setup

Instructions for accessing the required software are available here

Hands-on Session Program

Day 1 hands-on session

Day 1 tutorials

Topics:

Discover, download, and read data
FFTs, PSDs, and whitening
Working with segments lists and Timelines
Plot spectrograms to identify glitches, signals, and hardware injections

Day 2 hands-on session

Day 2 tutorials

Topics:

GW signals from compact object mergers
Matched filtering to identify compact object mergers
Working with compact object merger parameters and waveforms
Working with skymaps to identify likely source locations

Day 3