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Low significance of evidence for black hole echoes in gravitational wave data
Julian Westerweck, Alex B. Nielsen, Ofek Fischer-Birnholtz +6
Recent detections of merging black holes allow observational tests of the nature of these objects. In some proposed models, non-trivial structure at or near the black hole horizon…
Observational tests of the black hole area increase law
Miriam Cabero, Collin D. Capano, Ofek Fischer-Birnholtz +4
The black hole area theorem implies that when two black holes merge, the area of the final black hole should be greater than the sum of the areas of the two original black holes. W…
Distinguishing short duration noise transients in LIGO data to improve the PyCBC search for gravitational waves from high mass binary black hole mergers
Alexander Harvey Nitz
"Blip glitches" are a type of short duration transient noise in LIGO data. The cause for the majority of these is currently unknown. Short duration transient noise creates challeng…
Detecting binary compact-object mergers with gravitational waves: Understanding and Improving the sensitivity of the PyCBC search
Alexander H. Nitz, Thomas Dent, Tito Dal Canton +2
We present an improved search for binary compact-object mergers using a network of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors. We model a volumetric, isotropic source population and…