Data recorded by gravitational wave detectors includes many non-astrophysical
transient noise bursts, the most common of which is caused by scattered-light
within the detectors. These so-called ``glitches'' in the data impact the
ability to both observe and characterize incoming gravitational wave signals.
In this work we use a scattered-light glitch waveform model to identify and
characterize scattered-light glitches in a representative stretch of
gravitational wave data. We identify 2749 scattered-light glitches in 5.96
days of LIGO-Hanford data and 1306 glitches in 5.93 days of LIGO-Livingston
data taken from the third LIGO-Virgo observing run. By subtracting identified
scattered-light glitches we demonstrate an increase in the sensitive volume of
the gravitational wave search for binary black hole signals by ∼1%.Comment: 30 pages + acknowledgements and references, 13 figure