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36 | 36 | effects on many areas of physics including gravitation, relativity, |
37 | 37 | astrophysics, cosmology, particle physics, and nuclear physics.</li><li>Crunch observed data via numerical relativity computations that involves |
38 | 38 | complex maths in order to discern signal from noise, filter out relevant |
39 | | -signal and statistically estimate significance of observed data</li><li>Data visualization so that the binary / numerical results can be |
| 39 | +signal and statistically estimate significance of observed data.</li><li>Data visualization so that the binary / numerical results can be |
40 | 40 | comprehended.</li></ul><h3 id=the-challenges>The Challenges<a class=headerlink href=#the-challenges title="Link to this heading">#</a></h3><ul><li><p><strong>Computation</strong></p><p>Gravitational Waves are hard to detect as they produce a very small effect |
41 | 41 | and have tiny interaction with matter. Processing and analyzing all of |
42 | 42 | LIGO’s data requires a vast computing infrastructure.After taking care of |
43 | 43 | noise, which is billions of times of the signal, there is still very |
44 | 44 | complex relativity equations and huge amounts of data which present a |
45 | 45 | computational challenge: |
46 | 46 | <a href=https://youtu.be/7mcHknWWzNI>O(10^7) CPU hrs needed for binary merger analyses</a> |
47 | | -spread on 6 dedicated LIGO clusters</p></li><li><p><strong>Data Deluge</strong></p><p>As observational devices become more sensitive and reliable, the challenges |
| 47 | +spread on 6 dedicated LIGO clusters.</p></li><li><p><strong>Data Deluge</strong></p><p>As observational devices become more sensitive and reliable, the challenges |
48 | 48 | posed by data deluge and finding a needle in a haystack rise multi-fold. |
49 | 49 | LIGO generates terabytes of data every day! Making sense of this data |
50 | 50 | requires an enormous effort for each and every detection. For example, the |
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71 | 71 | contains a signal - needle in a haystack</li><li>Statistical analysis: estimate the statistical significance of observational |
72 | 72 | data, estimating the signal parameters (e.g. masses of stars, spin velocity, |
73 | 73 | and distance) by comparison with a model.</li><li>Visualization of data<ul><li>Time series</li><li>Spectrograms</li></ul></li><li>Compute Correlations</li><li>Key <a href=https://github.com/lscsoft>Software</a> developed in GW data analysis |
74 | | -such as <a href=https://gwpy.github.io/docs/stable/overview.html>GwPy</a> and |
| 74 | +such as <a href=https://gwpy.github.io/docs/stable/overview/>GwPy</a> and |
75 | 75 | <a href=https://pycbc.org>PyCBC</a> uses NumPy and AstroPy under the hood for |
76 | 76 | providing object based interfaces to utilities, tools, and methods for |
77 | 77 | studying data from gravitational-wave detectors.</li></ul><figure class=align-default id=id003><img src=/images/content_images/cs/gwpy-numpy-dep-graph.png alt="gwpy-numpy depgraph" class=align-center><figcaption><strong class=caption-title>Dependency graph showing how GwPy package depends on NumPy</strong><a class=headerlink href=#id003 title="Link to this image">#</a><br><p><span class=caption-text></span></figcaption></figure><hr><figure class=align-default id=id004><img src=/images/content_images/cs/PyCBC-numpy-dep-graph.png alt="PyCBC-numpy depgraph" class=align-center><figcaption><strong class=caption-title>Dependency graph showing how PyCBC package depends on NumPy</strong><a class=headerlink href=#id004 title="Link to this image">#</a><br><p><span class=caption-text></span></figcaption></figure><h2 id=summary>Summary<a class=headerlink href=#summary title="Link to this heading">#</a></h2><p>GW detection has enabled researchers to discover entirely unexpected phenomena |
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