The LIGO Open Science Center
Abstract
The LIGO Open Science Center (LOSC) fulfills LIGO's commitment to release, archive, and serve LIGO data in a broadly accessible way to the scientific community and to the public, and to provide the information and tools necessary to understand and use the data. In August 2014, the LOSC published the full dataset from Initial LIGO's “S5” run at design sensitivity, the first such large-scale release and a valuable testbed to explore the use of LIGO data by non-LIGO researchers and by the public, and to help teach gravitational-wave data analysis to students across the world. In addition to serving the S5 data, the LOSC web portal (losc.ligo.org) now offers documentation, data-location and data-quality queries, tutorials and example code, and more. We review the mission and plans of the LOSC, focusing on the S5 data release.
- Publication:
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Journal of Physics Conference Series
- Pub Date:
- May 2015
- DOI:
- 10.1088/1742-6596/610/1/012021
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1410.4839
- Bibcode:
- 2015JPhCS.610a2021V
- Keywords:
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- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena;
- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 8 pages, 1 figure, proceedings of the 10th LISA Symposium, University of Florida, Gainesville, May 18-23, 2014