Sounds of Spacetime - Sonification of Gravitational Wave Events

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Sounds of Spacetime

Interactive Gravitational Wave Tool What are Gravitational Waves? About Gravitational Wave Sounds

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Plots are pre-generated in Python and exported to JavaScript. The parameter values corresponding to highest log_likelihood of SEOBNRv4PHM, IMRPhenomXPHM, or IMRPhenomPv2_NRTidal:LowSpin posterior samples from The Gravitational Wave Open Science Center (GWOSC). Plots were constructed using LALSimulation's XLALSimInspiralChooseTDWaveform() waveform generator. The starting frequency for most event is set to 20 Hz, but varies for some events.

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Credit:
Created by Kevin Johansmeyer
Project advised by Dr. Marc Favata
Waveform generator example code written by Dr. Shaon Ghosh
wav.js audio package created by Todd Weisse
wave-resampler.js audio package created by Rafael da Silva Rocha
Plotly.js used to contruct plots



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Mass #1
(Detector Frame)		 Mass #2
(Detector Frame)		 Total Mass
(Detector Frame)		 Luminosity
Distance		 Redshift Initial Frequency
M☉
M☉
M☉
Mpc
Hz

Mass #1
(Source Frame)		 Mass #2
(Source Frame)		 Total Mass
(Source Frame)		 Mass Ratio
(Source Frame)		 Spin #1 Spin #2
M☉
M☉
M☉
† indicates a Top Event
* indicates an event with an initial frequency less than 20 Hz, and may not be audible
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Created by Kevin Johansmeyer as part of Montclair State University and the LIGO Scientific Collaboration