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34 | 34 | detect gravitational waves from some of the most violent and energetic |
35 | 35 | processes in the Universe, the data LIGO collects may have far-reaching |
36 | 36 | effects on many areas of physics including gravitation, relativity, |
37 | | -astrophysics, cosmology, particle physics, and nuclear physics.</li><li>Crunch observed data via numerical relativity computations that involves |
| 37 | +astrophysics, cosmology, particle physics, and nuclear physics.</li><li>Crunch observed data via numerical relativity computations that involve |
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 the 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 | | -LIGO’s data requires a vast computing infrastructure.After taking care of |
| 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: |
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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 |
78 | 78 | while providing new insight into many of the most profound astrophysical |
79 | | -phenomena known. Number crunching and data visualization is a crucial step |
80 | | -that helps scientists gain insights into data gathered from the scientific |
| 79 | +phenomena known. Number crunching and data visualization are crucial steps |
| 80 | +that help scientists gain insights into data gathered from scientific |
81 | 81 | observations and understand the results. The computations are complex and |
82 | 82 | cannot be comprehended by humans unless it is visualized using computer |
83 | 83 | simulations that are fed with the real observed data and analysis. NumPy |
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