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Low significance of evidence for black hole echoes in gravitational wave data

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Westerweck,  Julian
Observational Relativity and Cosmology, AEI-Hannover, MPI for Gravitational Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Nielsen,  Alex
Astrophysical Relativity, AEI-Golm, MPI for Gravitational Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Birnholtz,  Ofek
Observational Relativity and Cosmology, AEI-Hannover, MPI for Gravitational Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Cabero,  Miriam
Observational Relativity and Cosmology, AEI-Hannover, MPI for Gravitational Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Capano,  Collin
Observational Relativity and Cosmology, AEI-Hannover, MPI for Gravitational Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Dent,  Thomas
Observational Relativity and Cosmology, AEI-Hannover, MPI for Gravitational Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Krishnan,  Badri
Astrophysical Relativity, AEI-Golm, MPI for Gravitational Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Nitz,  Alexander H.
Observational Relativity and Cosmology, AEI-Hannover, MPI for Gravitational Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Westerweck, J., Nielsen, A., Birnholtz, O., Cabero, M., Capano, C., Dent, T., et al. (2018). Low significance of evidence for black hole echoes in gravitational wave data. Physical Review D, 97(12): 124037. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.97.124037.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0000-3D1D-D
Abstract
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 could lead to echo signals in gravitational wave
data. Recently, Abedi, Dykaar and Afshordi claimed tentative evidence for
repeating damped echo signals following the gravitational-wave signals of the
binary black hole merger events recorded in the first observational period of
the Advanced LIGO interferometers. We reanalyse the same data, addressing some
of the shortcomings of their method using more background data and a modified
procedure. We find a reduced statistical significance for the claims of
evidence for echoes, and calculate increased p-values for the null hypothesis
of signal-free noise. We conclude that their analysis does not provide
significant observational evidence for the existence of Planck-scale structure
at black hole horizons.