Gravity Spy Machine Learning Classifications of LIGO Glitches from Observing Runs O1, O2, O3a, and O3b

This data set contains all classifications that the Gravity Spy Machine Learning model for LIGO glitches from the first three observing runs (O1, O2 and O3, where O3 is split into O3a and O3b). Gravity Spy classified all noise events identified by the Omicron trigger pipeline in which Omicron identified that the signal-to-noise ratio was above 7.5 and the peak frequency of the noise event was between 10 Hz and 2048 Hz. To classify noise events, Gravity Spy made Omega scans of every glitch consisting of 4 different durations, which helps capture the morphology of noise events that are both short and long in duration.

There are 22 classes used for O1 and O2 data (including No_Glitch and None_of_the_Above), while there are two additional classes used to classify O3 data (while None_of_the_Above was removed).

For O1 and O2, the glitch classes were: 1080Lines, 1400Ripples, Air_Compressor, Blip, Chirp, Extremely_Loud, Helix, Koi_Fish, Light_Modulation, Low_Frequency_Burst, Low_Frequency_Lines, No_Glitch, None_of_the_Above, Paired_Doves, Power_Line, Repeating_Blips, Scattered_Light, Scratchy, Tomte, Violin_Mode, Wandering_Line, Whistle

For O3, the glitch classes were: 1080Lines, 1400Ripples, Air_Compressor, Blip, Blip_Low_Frequency, Chirp, Extremely_Loud, Fast_Scattering, Helix, Koi_Fish, Light_Modulation, Low_Frequency_Burst, Low_Frequency_Lines, No_Glitch, None_of_the_Above, Paired_Doves, Power_Line, Repeating_Blips, Scattered_Light, Scratchy, Tomte, Violin_Mode, Wandering_Line, Whistle

The data set is described in Glanzer et al. (2023), which we ask to be cited in any publications using this data release. Example code using the data can be found in this Colab notebook.

If you would like to download the Omega scans associated with each glitch, then you can use the gravitational-wave data-analysis tool GWpy. If you would like to use this tool, please install anaconda if you have not already and create a virtual environment using the following command

conda create --name gravityspy-py38 -c conda-forge python=3.8 gwpy pandas psycopg2 sqlalchemy

After downloading one of the CSV files for a specific era and interferometer, please run the following Python script if you would like to download the data associated with the metadata in the CSV file. We recommend not trying to download too many images at one time. For example, the script below will read data on Hanford glitches from O2 that were classified by Gravity Spy and filter for only glitches that were labelled as Blips with 90% confidence or higher, and then download the first 4 rows of the filtered table.

from gwpy.table import GravitySpyTable

H1_O2 = GravitySpyTable.read('H1_O2.csv')

H1_O2[(H1_O2["ml_label"] == "Blip") & (H1_O2["ml_confidence"] > 0.9)]

H1_O2[0:4].download(nproc=1)

Each of the columns in the CSV files are taken from various different inputs: 

[‘event_time’, ‘ifo’, ‘peak_time’, ‘peak_time_ns’, ‘start_time’, ‘start_time_ns’, ‘duration’, ‘peak_frequency’, ‘central_freq’, ‘bandwidth’, ‘channel’, ‘amplitude’, ‘snr’, ‘q_value’] contain metadata about the signal from the Omicron pipeline. 

[‘gravityspy_id’] is the unique identifier for each glitch in the dataset. 

[‘1400Ripples’, ‘1080Lines’, ‘Air_Compressor’, ‘Blip’, ‘Chirp’, ‘Extremely_Loud’, ‘Helix’, ‘Koi_Fish’, ‘Light_Modulation’, ‘Low_Frequency_Burst’, ‘Low_Frequency_Lines’, ‘No_Glitch’, ‘None_of_the_Above’, ‘Paired_Doves’, ‘Power_Line’, ‘Repeating_Blips’, ‘Scattered_Light’, ‘Scratchy’, ‘Tomte’, ‘Violin_Mode’, ‘Wandering_Line’, ‘Whistle’] contain the machine learning confidence for a glitch being in a particular Gravity Spy class (the confidence in all these columns should sum to unity). These use the original 22 classes in all cases.

[‘ml_label’, ‘ml_confidence’] provide the machine-learning predicted label for each glitch, and the machine learning confidence in its classification. 

[‘url1’, ‘url2’, ‘url3’, ‘url4’] are the links to the publicly-available Omega scans for each glitch. ‘url1’ shows the glitch for a duration of 0.5 seconds, ‘url2’ for 1 seconds, ‘url3’ for 2 seconds, and ‘url4’ for 4 seconds.

For the most recently uploaded training set used in Gravity Spy machine learning algorithms, please see Gravity Spy Training Set on Zenodo. 

For detailed information on the training set used for the original Gravity Spy machine learning paper, please see Machine learning for Gravity Spy: Glitch classification and dataset on Zenodo.