Identification and removal of non-Gaussian noise transients for gravitational wave searches

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We present a new ${\it{gating}}$ method to remove non-Gaussian noise transients in gravitational wave data.

• The method does not rely on any a-priori knowledge on the amplitude or duration of the transient events.
• In light of the character of the newly released LIGO O3a data, glitch-identification is particularly relevant for searches using this data.
• Our method preserves more data than previously achieved, while obtaining the same, if not higher, noise reduction.