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Isi and colleagues fit damped black-hole oscillation models to GW150914 data beginning near the waveform peak and reported evidence for a short-lived overtone together with a fundamental mode. A 2022 reanalysis by Cotesta and colleagues found much weaker overtone support and sensitivity to start time and noise. In 2023 Isi and Farr identified timing and analysis-duration problems in that reanalysis; Carullo and colleagues repeated their analysis with changes, reporting improved agreement for some estimates while maintaining that Bayesian evidence remained weak.
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Scientific scope
All analyses concern the same gravitational-wave event and make assumptions about the waveform, starting time, noise, sampling, priors and mode content. A nonzero amplitude posterior and a Bayes factor answer different statistical questions. The teams disagree on the effects of corrections and peak-time uncertainty, and the physical interpretation of an early damped component is also disputed. Agreement of fitted remnant parameters under Kerr assumptions is a conditional consistency test, not an unrestricted proof of the no-hair theorem or an independently established overtone detection.
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- Testing the no-hair theorem with GW150914
- On the detection of ringdown overtones in GW150914
- Comment on Analysis of Ringdown Overtones in GW150914
- Reply to Comment on Analysis of Ringdown Overtones in GW150914
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Maximiliano Isi; Matthew Giesler; Will M. Farr; Mark A. Scheel; Saul A. Teukolsky; Roberto Cotesta; Gregorio Carullo; Emanuele Berti; Vitor Cardoso
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GW150914 ringdown overtone fits and their statistical dispute
Isi and colleagues fit damped black-hole oscillation models to GW150914 data beginning near the waveform peak and reported evidence for a short-lived overtone together with a fundamental mode. A 2022 reanalysis by Cotesta and colleagues found much weaker overtone support and sensitivity to start time and noise. In 2023 Isi and Farr identified timing and analysis-duration problems in that reanalysis; Carullo and colleagues repeated their analysis with changes, reporting improved agreement for some estimates while maintaining that Bayesian evidence remained weak.
Scientific scope
All analyses concern the same gravitational-wave event and make assumptions about the waveform, starting time, noise, sampling, priors and mode content. A nonzero amplitude posterior and a Bayes factor answer different statistical questions. The teams disagree on the effects of corrections and peak-time uncertainty, and the physical interpretation of an early damped component is also disputed. Agreement of fitted remnant parameters under Kerr assumptions is a conditional consistency test, not an unrestricted proof of the no-hair theorem or an independently established overtone detection.
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People and systems
Maximiliano Isi; Matthew Giesler; Will M. Farr; Mark A. Scheel; Saul A. Teukolsky; Roberto Cotesta; Gregorio Carullo; Emanuele Berti; Vitor Cardoso
These are the listed authors of the cited contribution sources. Paper authorship does not quantify individual effort. An incomplete list is explicitly marked; same names are not automatically merged.