Data Open Access

LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) strain data are made public after a proprietary period. The Gravitational Wave Open Center (GWOSC) website allows downloading these data and provides as well various software tools to learn how to access and use these data. Dozens of teams outside the LVK collaboration have already used these datasets for applications ranging from fundamental science to education.  The data of the single runs are released and become fully available after about 18 months from the detection, needed for running the basic analyses by the LVK collaboration.

In addition, people interested in contributing to the analysis of gravitational-wave data are welcome to join our citizen-science projects like Gwitch hunters