Application of a Retired Burst Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Method to Investigate the Origin of the Blip Glitch

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is a collaboration with the goal to observe and study events that create gravitational waves detectable on Earth. During the process of data acquisition, glitches in the data can occur as a result of the observation of transient noise. One class of these glitches that occurs in burst data analysis is the blip glitch, which results in an almost identical signal to that of a gravitational wave detection and has an unknown origin. SLOPE is a data analysis method originally used for gravitational wave detection. This research has redeveloped SLOPE for the purpose of investigating glitches and has readied the algorithm to be applied to auxiliary channels to search for glitches. Results presented include operating parameters for which SLOPE can be effectively run.