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The educational soundmap shows some sky localizations among the most significant gravitational-wave events discovered by the LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA collaborations. The interactive sky map is sonorized. A specific chord is played when the cursor enters or leaves the coverage of the gravitational-wave sky localization. The binary merger of compact objects that LIGO and Virgo have detected so far are in the audio band. They can be converted to sound files, so that you can hear them. Once the map has been pinched by the cursor, the associated sound file is executed. These audio files were produced by the Gravitational Wave Open Science Center and they are intended for educational purposes. For additional information you can visit the page Audio Files. The gravitational-wave sky localizations shown here are the areas of the 90% credible regions and they are built using the skymaps from the Gravitational-wave Transient Catalog (GWTC). Note. To enjoy the tour the use of headphones is recommended to hear the frequency content.
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The audio files have been reactivated
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The technical description of the tool will be discussed in a dedicated paper (Greco, Rei, Bawaj et al., in preparation). Please, send us your feedback to improve the application to: Virgo-EGO Outreach team