{
  "id": 274520,
  "title": "Mysterious \"noise\" near frequency 612Hz",
  "url": "/competitions/g2net-gravitational-wave-detection/discussion/274520",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2021-09-26T16:06:42.475547900Z",
  "votes": 12,
  "comment_count": 15,
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  "content": "<p>First let us check a strong positive (GW pattern visible to human-like objects), many notebooks use this sample to display the \"chirp\" in the time-frequency diagram (CQT, CWT, spectrogram, etc)</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i.imgur.com/hqvf0PE.png\" alt=\"000a5b6e5c\"></p>\n<p>There is a strong spike around 612hz:</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i.imgur.com/vqVe58x.png\" alt=\"000a5b6e5c_energy\"></p>\n<p>We might think, there is the energy signature of the GW!</p>\n<p>However, here is a false positive (if we use the regular 0.5 threshold)</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i.imgur.com/tYobZoO.png\" alt=\"c92bc5ce6b\"></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i.imgur.com/64RsaHn.png\" alt=\"c92bc5ce6b_spectrum\"></p>\n<p>Huh?</p>\n<p>Note this will embody itself as a white band (visible to human-like objects) in 2D images (CQT, CWT, spectrogram, etc), but this only exists in LIGOs (in the US), not the Virgo (in Europe).</p>\n<p>For the models, I filtered out that frequency and the CV improved about 0.001-0.002. So it may be useful to top teams.</p>",
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    {
      "id": "1524522",
      "postDate": "09/26/2021 16:06:42",
      "content": "<p>First let us check a strong positive (GW pattern visible to human-like objects), many notebooks use this sample to display the \"chirp\" in the time-frequency diagram (CQT, CWT, spectrogram, etc)</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i.imgur.com/hqvf0PE.png\" alt=\"000a5b6e5c\"></p>\n<p>There is a strong spike around 612hz:</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i.imgur.com/vqVe58x.png\" alt=\"000a5b6e5c_energy\"></p>\n<p>We might think, there is the energy signature of the GW!</p>\n<p>However, here is a false positive (if we use the regular 0.5 threshold)</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i.imgur.com/tYobZoO.png\" alt=\"c92bc5ce6b\"></p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i.imgur.com/64RsaHn.png\" alt=\"c92bc5ce6b_spectrum\"></p>\n<p>Huh?</p>\n<p>Note this will embody itself as a white band (visible to human-like objects) in 2D images (CQT, CWT, spectrogram, etc), but this only exists in LIGOs (in the US), not the Virgo (in Europe).</p>\n<p>For the models, I filtered out that frequency and the CV improved about 0.001-0.002. So it may be useful to top teams.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "First let us check a strong positive (GW pattern visible to human-like objects), many notebooks use this sample to display the \"chirp\" in the time-frequency diagram (CQT, CWT, spectrogram, etc)\n\n![000a5b6e5c](https://i.imgur.com/hqvf0PE.png)\n\nThere is a strong spike around 612hz:\n\n![000a5b6e5c_energy](https://i.imgur.com/vqVe58x.png)\n\nWe might think, there is the energy signature of the GW!\n\nHowever, here is a false positive (if we use the regular 0.5 threshold)\n\n![c92bc5ce6b](https://i.imgur.com/tYobZoO.png)\n\n![c92bc5ce6b_spectrum](https://i.imgur.com/64RsaHn.png)\n\nHuh?\n\nNote this will embody itself as a white band (visible to human-like objects) in 2D images (CQT, CWT, spectrogram, etc), but this only exists in LIGOs (in the US), not the Virgo (in Europe).\n\nFor the models, I filtered out that frequency and the CV improved about 0.001-0.002. So it may be useful to top teams.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1524582",
      "postDate": "09/26/2021 17:14:55",
      "content": "<p><img src=\"https://i.ibb.co/1bBTvZ1/ASDz.png\" alt=\"\"></p>\n<p>This is what the mean ASDs looks like across the entire ve- portion of the training dataset (~280k samples). The spike you mentioned is visible there as well, and I believe there was another topic that discussed it as well a while back. There was also a nice phd dissertation Heng posted that shares about 10 causes for the spikes at various frequencies. Notably, the generated data we have is missing a lot of the spikes present in actual detector data (they did not model in some known noise sources).</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "![](https://i.ibb.co/1bBTvZ1/ASDz.png)\n\nThis is what the mean ASDs looks like across the entire ve- portion of the training dataset (~280k samples). The spike you mentioned is visible there as well, and I believe there was another topic that discussed it as well a while back. There was also a nice phd dissertation Heng posted that shares about 10 causes for the spikes at various frequencies. Notably, the generated data we have is missing a lot of the spikes present in actual detector data (they did not model in some known noise sources).",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1524644",
      "postDate": "09/26/2021 18:13:58",
      "content": "<p>i thought i read in some post that it is safe to assume all GW waves in the competition are below 500 Hz?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "i thought i read in some post that it is safe to assume all GW waves in the competition are below 500 Hz?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1524724",
      "postDate": "09/26/2021 19:16:09",
      "content": "<p>The hosts never confirmed that. In fact, they basically said in the welcome thread something to the effect of 'we take all liberties to produce any astronomically possible signal.' The &lt;300 and &lt;500 hz values are mostly from literature and experiments in terms of what people cut off at.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "The hosts never confirmed that. In fact, they basically said in the welcome thread something to the effect of 'we take all liberties to produce any astronomically possible signal.' The <300 and <500 hz values are mostly from literature and experiments in terms of what people cut off at.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1524735",
      "postDate": "09/26/2021 19:38:39",
      "content": "<p>i make high-resolution cqt and then inspect by eye.<br>\ni never find anything above 600hz.</p>\n<p>(but it is possible that I miss the chirp since I am not trained in GW)</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "i make high-resolution cqt and then inspect by eye.\ni never find anything above 600hz.\n\n(but it is possible that I miss the chirp since I am not trained in GW)",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1524745",
      "postDate": "09/26/2021 19:52:47",
      "content": "<p><img src=\"https://i.ibb.co/ynKztDn/fakwbh.png\" alt=\"\"></p>\n<p>This is a fake (but totally possible I suppose) BH merger in FD:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>m1: 26 sm</li>\n<li>m2: 22 sm</li>\n<li>phase_at_coalescence: 2.85</li>\n<li>luminosity_distance: 3222</li>\n<li>inclination: 1.1</li>\n<li>spinz1: 0.01</li>\n<li>spinz2: -0.04</li>\n<li>declination: 0.92</li>\n<li>right_ascension: 2.25</li>\n<li>polarization: 3.73</li>\n</ul>",
      "rawMarkdown": "![](https://i.ibb.co/ynKztDn/fakwbh.png)\n\nThis is a fake (but totally possible I suppose) BH merger in FD:\n\n- m1: 26 sm\n- m2: 22 sm\n- phase_at_coalescence: 2.85\n- luminosity_distance: 3222\n- inclination: 1.1\n- spinz1: 0.01\n- spinz2: -0.04\n- declination: 0.92\n- right_ascension: 2.25\n- polarization: 3.73",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1524757",
      "postDate": "09/26/2021 20:05:41",
      "content": "<p>Oh my god…this is such a huge hint…too late for me to train new models 😂</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Oh my god...this is such a huge hint...too late for me to train new models 😂",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1525188",
      "postDate": "09/27/2021 08:01:25",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/scaomath\" target=\"_blank\">@scaomath</a> are above parameters of Preprocessing or some thing ?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "scaomath are above parameters of Preprocessing or some thing ?",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1525210",
      "postDate": "09/27/2021 08:35:54",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/authman\" target=\"_blank\">@authman</a> posted what a simulated black hole merger would produce, without noise.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "authman posted what a simulated black hole merger would produce, without noise.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1525375",
      "postDate": "09/27/2021 11:11:21",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/scaomath\" target=\"_blank\">@scaomath</a> What hint do you mean? 😄 </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "scaomath What hint do you mean? 😄",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1525390",
      "postDate": "09/27/2021 11:25:08",
      "content": "<p>While shape is correct, your frequencies are off by the factor of 2, probably wrong sample rate. Anyway, here is thread about this artifact -  <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/g2net-gravitational-wave-detection/discussion/263995\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.kaggle.com/c/g2net-gravitational-wave-detection/discussion/263995</a><br>\nTL/DR: Noise from dampening systems, not related to signal.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "While shape is correct, your frequencies are off by the factor of 2, probably wrong sample rate. Anyway, here is thread about this artifact -  https://www.kaggle.com/c/g2net-gravitational-wave-detection/discussion/263995\nTL/DR: Noise from dampening systems, not related to signal.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1525393",
      "postDate": "09/27/2021 11:26:52",
      "content": "<p>probably he meant about this: \"all GW waves in the competition are below 500 Hz\"</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "probably he meant about this: \"all GW waves in the competition are below 500 Hz\"",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1525645",
      "postDate": "09/27/2021 14:48:04",
      "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/imeintanis\" target=\"_blank\">@imeintanis</a> I meant the tiny phase difference shown in the simulation, useful a priori information for augmentations.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "imeintanis I meant the tiny phase difference shown in the simulation, useful a priori information for augmentations.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1528596",
      "postDate": "09/29/2021 19:19:56",
      "content": "<blockquote>\n  <p>i make high-resolution cqt and then inspect by eye.<br>\n  i never find anything above 600hz.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Cutoff at 640hz.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i.imgur.com/Oh4ZzAg.png\" alt=\"\"></p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "> i make high-resolution cqt and then inspect by eye.\n> i never find anything above 600hz.\n\nCutoff at 640hz.\n\n![](https://i.imgur.com/Oh4ZzAg.png)",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1528597",
      "postDate": "09/29/2021 19:22:04",
      "content": "<p>yes, this is also roughly what i get.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "yes, this is also roughly what i get.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "1559746",
      "postDate": "10/27/2021 07:11:22",
      "content": "<p>Hey All,</p>\n<p>Thank you all for taking part in our competition. The participation has been overwhelmingly positive. We are currently conducting a survey to gauge the demographic and outreach achieved. Kindly spare 2min and fill in this survey <a href=\"https://forms.gle/QP9L16niPexozyhu5\" target=\"_blank\">https://forms.gle/QP9L16niPexozyhu5</a>.</p>\n<p>Thank you all,</p>\n<p>Regards,<br>\nChris</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hey All,\n\nThank you all for taking part in our competition. The participation has been overwhelmingly positive. We are currently conducting a survey to gauge the demographic and outreach achieved. Kindly spare 2min and fill in this survey https://forms.gle/QP9L16niPexozyhu5.\n\nThank you all,\n\nRegards,\nChris",
      "votes": null
    }
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  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 1524582,
      "author_name": "authman",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "09/26/2021 17:14:55",
      "content": "<p><img src=\"https://i.ibb.co/1bBTvZ1/ASDz.png\" alt=\"\"></p>\n<p>This is what the mean ASDs looks like across the entire ve- portion of the training dataset (~280k samples). The spike you mentioned is visible there as well, and I believe there was another topic that discussed it as well a while back. There was also a nice phd dissertation Heng posted that shares about 10 causes for the spikes at various frequencies. Notably, the generated data we have is missing a lot of the spikes present in actual detector data (they did not model in some known noise sources).</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 1524644,
      "author_name": "hengck23",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "09/26/2021 18:13:58",
      "content": "<p>i thought i read in some post that it is safe to assume all GW waves in the competition are below 500 Hz?</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": [
        {
          "id": 1524724,
          "author_name": "authman",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "09/26/2021 19:16:09",
          "content": "<p>The hosts never confirmed that. In fact, they basically said in the welcome thread something to the effect of 'we take all liberties to produce any astronomically possible signal.' The &lt;300 and &lt;500 hz values are mostly from literature and experiments in terms of what people cut off at.</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 1524735,
          "author_name": "hengck23",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "09/26/2021 19:38:39",
          "content": "<p>i make high-resolution cqt and then inspect by eye.<br>\ni never find anything above 600hz.</p>\n<p>(but it is possible that I miss the chirp since I am not trained in GW)</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 1524745,
          "author_name": "authman",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "09/26/2021 19:52:47",
          "content": "<p><img src=\"https://i.ibb.co/ynKztDn/fakwbh.png\" alt=\"\"></p>\n<p>This is a fake (but totally possible I suppose) BH merger in FD:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>m1: 26 sm</li>\n<li>m2: 22 sm</li>\n<li>phase_at_coalescence: 2.85</li>\n<li>luminosity_distance: 3222</li>\n<li>inclination: 1.1</li>\n<li>spinz1: 0.01</li>\n<li>spinz2: -0.04</li>\n<li>declination: 0.92</li>\n<li>right_ascension: 2.25</li>\n<li>polarization: 3.73</li>\n</ul>",
          "votes": null,
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        },
        {
          "id": 1524757,
          "author_name": "scaomath",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "09/26/2021 20:05:41",
          "content": "<p>Oh my god…this is such a huge hint…too late for me to train new models 😂</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 1525188,
          "author_name": "jaideepvalani",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "09/27/2021 08:01:25",
          "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/scaomath\" target=\"_blank\">@scaomath</a> are above parameters of Preprocessing or some thing ?</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 1525210,
          "author_name": "scaomath",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "09/27/2021 08:35:54",
          "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/authman\" target=\"_blank\">@authman</a> posted what a simulated black hole merger would produce, without noise.</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 1525375,
          "author_name": "sggpls",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "09/27/2021 11:11:21",
          "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/scaomath\" target=\"_blank\">@scaomath</a> What hint do you mean? 😄 </p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": [
            {
              "id": 1525393,
              "author_name": "imeintanis",
              "author_url": "",
              "post_date": "09/27/2021 11:26:52",
              "content": "<p>probably he meant about this: \"all GW waves in the competition are below 500 Hz\"</p>",
              "votes": null,
              "replies": []
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "id": 1525645,
          "author_name": "scaomath",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "09/27/2021 14:48:04",
          "content": "<p><a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/imeintanis\" target=\"_blank\">@imeintanis</a> I meant the tiny phase difference shown in the simulation, useful a priori information for augmentations.</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 1528596,
          "author_name": "fffrrt",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "09/29/2021 19:19:56",
          "content": "<blockquote>\n  <p>i make high-resolution cqt and then inspect by eye.<br>\n  i never find anything above 600hz.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Cutoff at 640hz.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://i.imgur.com/Oh4ZzAg.png\" alt=\"\"></p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        },
        {
          "id": 1528597,
          "author_name": "hengck23",
          "author_url": "",
          "post_date": "09/29/2021 19:22:04",
          "content": "<p>yes, this is also roughly what i get.</p>",
          "votes": null,
          "replies": []
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": 1525390,
      "author_name": "denisbsu",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "09/27/2021 11:25:08",
      "content": "<p>While shape is correct, your frequencies are off by the factor of 2, probably wrong sample rate. Anyway, here is thread about this artifact -  <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/g2net-gravitational-wave-detection/discussion/263995\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.kaggle.com/c/g2net-gravitational-wave-detection/discussion/263995</a><br>\nTL/DR: Noise from dampening systems, not related to signal.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 1559746,
      "author_name": "zerafachris",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "10/27/2021 07:11:22",
      "content": "<p>Hey All,</p>\n<p>Thank you all for taking part in our competition. The participation has been overwhelmingly positive. We are currently conducting a survey to gauge the demographic and outreach achieved. Kindly spare 2min and fill in this survey <a href=\"https://forms.gle/QP9L16niPexozyhu5\" target=\"_blank\">https://forms.gle/QP9L16niPexozyhu5</a>.</p>\n<p>Thank you all,</p>\n<p>Regards,<br>\nChris</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
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    "1524522": "First let us check a strong positive (GW pattern visible to human-like objects), many notebooks use this sample to display the \"chirp\" in the time-frequency diagram (CQT, CWT, spectrogram, etc)\n\n![000a5b6e5c](https://i.imgur.com/hqvf0PE.png)\n\nThere is a strong spike around 612hz:\n\n![000a5b6e5c_energy](https://i.imgur.com/vqVe58x.png)\n\nWe might think, there is the energy signature of the GW!\n\nHowever, here is a false positive (if we use the regular 0.5 threshold)\n\n![c92bc5ce6b](https://i.imgur.com/tYobZoO.png)\n\n![c92bc5ce6b_spectrum](https://i.imgur.com/64RsaHn.png)\n\nHuh?\n\nNote this will embody itself as a white band (visible to human-like objects) in 2D images (CQT, CWT, spectrogram, etc), but this only exists in LIGOs (in the US), not the Virgo (in Europe).\n\nFor the models, I filtered out that frequency and the CV improved about 0.001-0.002. So it may be useful to top teams.",
    "1524582": "![](https://i.ibb.co/1bBTvZ1/ASDz.png)\n\nThis is what the mean ASDs looks like across the entire ve- portion of the training dataset (~280k samples). The spike you mentioned is visible there as well, and I believe there was another topic that discussed it as well a while back. There was also a nice phd dissertation Heng posted that shares about 10 causes for the spikes at various frequencies. Notably, the generated data we have is missing a lot of the spikes present in actual detector data (they did not model in some known noise sources).",
    "1524644": "i thought i read in some post that it is safe to assume all GW waves in the competition are below 500 Hz?",
    "1524724": "The hosts never confirmed that. In fact, they basically said in the welcome thread something to the effect of 'we take all liberties to produce any astronomically possible signal.' The <300 and <500 hz values are mostly from literature and experiments in terms of what people cut off at.",
    "1524735": "i make high-resolution cqt and then inspect by eye.\ni never find anything above 600hz.\n\n(but it is possible that I miss the chirp since I am not trained in GW)",
    "1524745": "![](https://i.ibb.co/ynKztDn/fakwbh.png)\n\nThis is a fake (but totally possible I suppose) BH merger in FD:\n\n- m1: 26 sm\n- m2: 22 sm\n- phase_at_coalescence: 2.85\n- luminosity_distance: 3222\n- inclination: 1.1\n- spinz1: 0.01\n- spinz2: -0.04\n- declination: 0.92\n- right_ascension: 2.25\n- polarization: 3.73",
    "1524757": "Oh my god...this is such a huge hint...too late for me to train new models 😂",
    "1525188": "scaomath are above parameters of Preprocessing or some thing ?",
    "1525210": "authman posted what a simulated black hole merger would produce, without noise.",
    "1525375": "scaomath What hint do you mean? 😄",
    "1525390": "While shape is correct, your frequencies are off by the factor of 2, probably wrong sample rate. Anyway, here is thread about this artifact -  https://www.kaggle.com/c/g2net-gravitational-wave-detection/discussion/263995\nTL/DR: Noise from dampening systems, not related to signal.",
    "1525393": "probably he meant about this: \"all GW waves in the competition are below 500 Hz\"",
    "1525645": "imeintanis I meant the tiny phase difference shown in the simulation, useful a priori information for augmentations.",
    "1528596": "> i make high-resolution cqt and then inspect by eye.\n> i never find anything above 600hz.\n\nCutoff at 640hz.\n\n![](https://i.imgur.com/Oh4ZzAg.png)",
    "1528597": "yes, this is also roughly what i get.",
    "1559746": "Hey All,\n\nThank you all for taking part in our competition. The participation has been overwhelmingly positive. We are currently conducting a survey to gauge the demographic and outreach achieved. Kindly spare 2min and fill in this survey https://forms.gle/QP9L16niPexozyhu5.\n\nThank you all,\n\nRegards,\nChris"
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