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Description
Gravitational-wave bursts are a class of transient gravitational-wave signals which have unknown or very difficult to model signal morphologies. Likely progenitors of gravitational-wave bursts include core-collapse supernovae, cosmic string cusps, pulsar glitches, and black hole encounters. By definition, gravitaitonal-wave bursts cover a broad parameter space which poses a significant challenge to gravitational-wave burst detection techniques. This talk will present an overview of various gravitational-wave burst signal progenitors. Gravitational-wave burst search techniques, including recent machine learning applciations, will also be described. The impact of these searches on our understanding of the transient gravitational wave universe will be discussed.
