Tarsier: A Light-Weight Framework for Visualizing Gravitational-Wave Transients

The direct observation of gravitational-wave (GW) signals has become one of the most exciting events in this century. However, data analysis for finding signals of gravitational-waves from huge collected data is still a challenge for researchers. In addition, we also found that the researchers cannot easily view and manipulate collected data with mobile devices, such as mobile tablets. Since there is a need to access GW data on a mobile platform, we propose a new mobile framework, Tarsier, that consists of a mobile client as a front-end for data visualization and a flexible web architecture (RESTful APIs, Node.JS and MongoDB) as a back-end to provide data services. This is an ongoing project of undergraduate research, but the current design and results demonstrate a promising direction of applying computer science technologies to the Astro-Physics domain.