LIGO Open Science Center
The LIGO Open Science Center provides public access to gravitational‑wave data from the LIGO Hanford and Livingston observatories, referenced in an awesome list of physics data resources.
About this tool
LIGO Open Science Center
URL: https://losc.ligo.org
Category: Themed Directories
Tags: datasets, physics, space
Overview
The LIGO Open Science Center (Gravitational Wave Open Science Center) provides public access to gravitational‑wave observatory data, tutorials, and software tools from the LIGO Hanford and Livingston detectors, in collaboration with Virgo and KAGRA.
Features
- Open gravitational‑wave data access
- Public datasets from LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA observing runs
- Includes data from the first segment of the fourth observing run (O4a)
- Event-specific data (e.g., GW231123_135430, a high‑mass black hole merger)
- Documentation & release notes
- Event data documentation and notes for released events
- Observing run overviews and links to associated discovery papers
- Tutorials & learning resources
- Tutorials for working with gravitational‑wave data
- Guidance for using analysis tools and data formats (implied by site focus on tutorials and software tools)
- Software tools & access methods
- Tools for downloading and working with GW data
- Transition notice from CVMFS data access to Open Science Grid’s Open Science Data Federation (OSDF)
- Research collaboration context
- Data originating from LIGO Hanford and Livingston, in partnership with Virgo and KAGRA
- Connected to major physics research organizations (e.g., NSF, INFN, CNRS, EGO, LSC, LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA)
- Licensing & attribution
- Data released under the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license
- Published acknowledgement guidelines for data use in publications and projects
Licensing
- License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Requirements: Users must follow the provided acknowledgement guidelines when using the data.
Pricing
- Access to the released data and resources is free under the CC BY 4.0 open license (no paid plans indicated).
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