Thanks for presenting your thesis. However, one of your figures doesn’t support your argument on closer inspection. The figure that you point to as being the ‘unfiltered’ data is measuring cross-correlation between the Hanford and Livingston datasets, so we should expect it to look completely different than the datasets themselves.
I also want to push back on a particular point—there’s nothing wrong in principle with using a black-hole shaped filter to find black holes. You just have to adjust the prior based on the complexity of your filter.
Thanks for presenting your thesis. However, one of your figures doesn’t support your argument on closer inspection. The figure that you point to as being the ‘unfiltered’ data is measuring cross-correlation between the Hanford and Livingston datasets, so we should expect it to look completely different than the datasets themselves.
I also want to push back on a particular point—there’s nothing wrong in principle with using a black-hole shaped filter to find black holes. You just have to adjust the prior based on the complexity of your filter.