Open Data from LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA through the First Part of the Fourth Observing Run

(The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration)

doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ae211e

Open Data from LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA through the First Part of the Fourth Observing Run

(The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration)

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Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
National Science Foundation
University of Salerno
National Institute for Nuclear Physics
University of Warwick
Monash University
Pennsylvania State University
Leibniz University Hannover
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
California Institute of Technology
Louisiana State University
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Aix-Marseille Université
Université catholique de Louvain
Queen Mary University of London
University of California at Davis
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais
Université Paris 7
University of Rome Tor Vergata
University of Antwerp
International Centre for Theoretical Sciences
National Institutes of Natural Sciences - National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
Friedrich Schiller University Jena
University of Genoa
Université de Savoie
University of Naples Federico II
Cardiff University
Australian National University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Maastricht University
National Institute for Subatomic Physics
University of Rome La Sapienza
Institut Fresnel
ComUE Paris-Saclay
The University of Tokyo
Institute for High Energy Physics
Gran Sasso Science Institute

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Abstract

LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA form a network of gravitational-wave observatories. Data and analysis results from this network are made publicly available through the Gravitational Wave Open Science Center. This paper describes open data from this network, including the addition of data from the first part of the fourth observing run and selected periods from the preceding engineering run, collected from 2023 May to 2024 January. The public dataset includes calibrated strain time series for each instrument, data from additional channels used for noise subtraction and detector characterization, and analysis data products from version 4.0 of the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog.

Original language	English
Article number	232
Pages (from-to)	1-30
Number of pages	30
Journal	Astrophysical Journal
Volume	1004
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ae211e
Publication status	Published - 20 Jun 2026

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Astronomy databases (83)
Black holes (162)
Gravitational waves (678)

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Open Data from LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA through the First Part of the Fourth Observing Run

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