Prototype Implementation of a Web-Based Gravitational Wave Signal Analyzer: SNEGRAF

TL;DR

This paper presents the design, implementation, and optimization of SNEGRAF, a web-based tool for visualizing gravitational wave signals from supernovae, enhancing data analysis for multi-messenger astronomy.

Contribution

It introduces a novel web application that efficiently visualizes gravitational wave data with optimized algorithms for handling large datasets.

Findings

Efficient visualization of large gravitational wave datasets achieved.

Interactive features enable detailed analysis of waveforms and spectra.

Optimizations reduce latency in rendering complex data.

Abstract

A direct detection of gravitational waves is one of the most exciting frontiers for modern astronomy and astrophysics. Gravitational wave signals combined with classical electro-magnetic observations, known as multi-messenger astronomy, promise newer and deeper insights about the cosmic evolution of astrophysical objects such as neutron starts and black holes. To this end, we have been developing an original data processing pipeline for KAGRA, a Japanese gravitational wave telescope, for optimal detections of supernova events. As a part of our project, we released a web application named SuperNova Event Gravitational-wave-display in Fukuoka (SNEGRAF) in autumn 2018. SNEGRAF accepts the users' theoretical waveforms as a plain text file consisting of a time series of $h_{+}$ and $h_{\times}$ (the plus and cross mode of gravitational waves, respectively), then displays the input, a corresponding spectrogram, and power spectrum together with KAGRA sensitivity curve and the signal-to-noise ratio; we adopt Google Visualization API for the interactive visualization of the input waveforms. However, it is a time-consuming task to draw more than $\sim 10^{5}$ data points directly with JavaScript, although the number can be typical for a supernova hunt by assuming a typical duration of the event and sampling rate of the detectors; a combination of recursive decimations of the original in the server-side program and an appropriate selection of them depending on the time duration requested by the user in a web browser achieves an acceptable latency. In this paper, we present the current design, implementation and optimization algorithms of SNEGRAF, and its future perspectives.