The LIGO Open Science Center

[摘要] 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.

[发布机构] Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena; CA; 91109, United States^1;LIGO - California Institute of Technology, Pasadena; CA; 91125, United States^2;University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Milwaukee; WI; 53201, United States^3

[关键词] Data location;Data quality;Data release;Design sensitivity;Open science;Scientific community