GW Open Data Workshop #3: Hands-on exercises

Material to support GW Open Data Workshop #3, May 26-27, 2020

Software setup

Software Setup Instructions

Hands-on Session Program

Day 1 hands-on session

Day 1 tutorials

Quiz

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

Quiz

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

Data Challenge

Challenge