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Title: Detection of anomalies amongst LIGO’s glitch populations with autoencoders
Abstract

Gravitational wave (GW) interferometers are able to detect a change in distance of ~1/10 000th the size of a proton. Such sensitivity leads to large rates of non-gaussian, transient bursts of noise, also known as glitches, which hinder the detection and parameter estimation of short- and long-lived GW signals in the main detector strain. Glitches, come in a wide range of frequency-amplitude-time morphologies and may be caused by environmental or instrumental processes, so a key step towards their mitigation is to understand their population. Current approaches for their identification use supervised models to learn their morphology in the main strain with a fixed set of classes, but do not consider relevant information provided by auxiliary channels that monitor the state of the interferometers. In this work, we present an unsupervised algorithm to find anomalous glitches. Firstly, we encode a subset of auxiliary channels from Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory Livingston in the fractal dimension (FD), which measures the complexity of the signal. For this aim, we speed up the fractal dimension calculation to encode1h of data in11s. Secondly, we learn the underlying distribution of the data using an autoencoder with cyclic periodic convolutions. In this way, we learn the underlying distribution of glitches and we uncover unknown glitch morphologies, and overlaps in time between different glitches and misclassifications. This led to the discovery of6.6%anomalies in the input data. The results of this investigation stress the learnable structure of auxiliary channels encoded in FD and provide a flexible framework for glitch discovery.

 
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Award ID(s):
2308693
PAR ID:
10510717
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
Institute of Physics
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Classical and Quantum Gravity
Volume:
41
Issue:
5
ISSN:
0264-9381
Page Range / eLocation ID:
055004
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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