Denoising of gravitational-wave signal GW150914 via total-variation   methods
  We apply a regularized Rudin-Osher-Fatemi total variation (TV) method to denoise the transient gravitational wave signal GW150914. We have previously applied TV techniques to denoise numerically generated grav- itational waves embedded in additive Gaussian noise, obtaining satisfactory results irrespective of the signal morphology or astrophysical origin. We find that the non-Gaussian, non-stationary noise from the gravitational wave event GW150914 can also be successfully removed with TV-denoising methods. The quality of the de- noised waveform is comparable to that obtained with the Bayesian approach used in the discovery paper [1]. TV-denoising techniques may thus offer an additional viable approach for waveform reconstruction. 
Alejandro Torres-Forn\'e, Antonio Marquina, Jos\'e A. Font and Jos\'e   M. Ib\'a\~nez
astro-ph.IM gr-qc