Experimental Confirmation of the Doubts about Authenticity of Event GW 150914

It was produced processing of the LIGO 14.09.2015 registration data. It was established that the chirp signals (signals of merger of black holes) are absent in the data. This is proved by using a coherent filtering and also two-stage causal filtering. Soliton-like signals such as wavelet “Mexican hat” are found by filtering based on the Butterworth filter. These signals are different in polarity, and their spectra are quite different. Doubts about the authenticity of the detection of chirp signals, which announced on February 11, 2016, are justified by the results the conducted analysis.


Introduction
In 1916, Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves [1].
The discovery of the binary pulsar system PSR B1913 + 16 by Hulse and Taylor [2] and subsequent observations of its energy loss by Taylor and Weisberg [3] demonstrated the existence of gravitational waves.
Experiments to detect gravitational waves began with Weber [4].
It was announced the observation of gravitational waves from merging black holes thanks to the two signals registered according to observatories LIGO Hanford (H1) and the LIGO Livingston (L1) in [5].
−T detect = 1,126,259,462.39= September 14, 2015, 09:50:45.39UTC, respective signals detected in the frequency band [35 ÷ 350 Hz], the events have a combined signal-to-noise ratio SNR announced ≈ 24 [5] [6].These data were presented in February-May, 2016 on the website [6], later, in July 2016 the time of the gravitational wave arrival was corrected and been removed 0.39 seconds, this is roughening of accuracy the time of arrival.
Because of this it is now the time of arrival of gravitational waves is specified without hundredths of a second on the website [6]: T detect = 1,126,259,462 = September 14 2015, 09:50:45 UTC.
It was announced in [5] about the delay between the observatories which is ≈ 6.9 ms (arrived first at L1 and 6.9 ms later at H1).
It is strange that removed hundredths of a second, no time of signal arrivals at the L1 and H1, but announced about the delay between the arrival of the GWwave at different observatories to within a few thousandths of a second.Further seconds and its share are relative 0 09 : 50 : 45 T = or start 0 09 : 50 : 29 T = .
On the page "Data release for event GW150914" (https://losc.ligo.org/events/GW150914/)are given: -results of processing carried out by the members of LIGO Collaboration (Figure 1); -signals 1) according to observation 14.09.2015.Experimental templates, shown in Figure 1, can be described as a first approximation by the relation: where ( )
Chirp signal stays the chirp signal after passing through the band filter.
Filtering is defined by the convolution: where ( ) f h t -impulse response of a filter; ( ) X t -input process; ( ) Y t -the filtered process; ⊗ is the sign of the convolution.
2) The integral of the square of the signal remains practically unchanged if the signal in the filter band.This is a consequence of Parseval's theorem.
where ( ) H f -the transfer function of the filter, filter's impulse response,
3) The spectrum of the signal after filtering remains practically unchanged if the signal is filtered in band, ( ) L S t and they coincide with the delay and inversion (Figure 1), as stated in [5] [6], their spectra ( ( ) ( ) Amplitude spectra ( ) are almost equal after filtering in the filter band ( ( )

The Procedure for the Detection of Known Signals
Detection of gravitational chirp signal is based on the selection of one from two alternative hypotheses: x t n t s t x t n t s t From the mathematical theory of statistics follows [7] that the optimal receiver represents matched filtering procedure and then comparing to a threshold.
The matched filter has an impulse response equal to the inverted templates (Figure 1): T template -template duration (duration of impulse response).
The matched filter of input records in the band [35 ÷ 350 Hz] with the signals, represented in Figure 1, is written by the relations: , , where ( )

t h t h t h t h t h t
2) The convolution is produced in accordance with (Equation ( 7)) and find ( ) h t are compared with thresholds (P 1 , P 2 ).
( ) ( ) The signal/noise ratio is determined by the formula: The results of the matched filter in accordance with the Equations ( 7) are shown in Figure 2, the signal/noise ratio SNR real ≈ 3.
Such a small value of the ( ) For example, a mixtures of signal and noise were formed to demonstrate the matched filtering efficiency: x

t h t h t s t k x t h t h t s t k
where ( ) shown in Figure 2, the lower part.
The signal/noise ratio at the output SNR out is determined by the SNR in and gain at the expense of processing (B SNR ): For formed processes x t x t signal/noise ratio at the input in the simulation: that more than doubled when the model signals.
If the real signals are in Figure 1, after the matched filter would have SNR out > 20, but it is not observed (Figure 2, top).
A small rise seen near 16-th second, corresponding SNR real ≈ 3, as a result of matched filtering (the upper part of Figure 2), which is much smaller than it should be (Equation ( 11)).
Thus, the hypothesis H1 is not confirmed.
This means: the chirp signals are absent in the original records (Figure 1).

Definition of the Signals and Their Parameters
If the chirp signals are absent in registration data (Figure 1), it is necessary to determine the type of signals that are in LIGO14.09.2015 records.

Evaluation of the Times of Signal Arrivals
For this purpose, the optimum detector is used, which calculates the likelihood ratio:

P h s P h s L h s L h s P h n P h n
From (Equation ( 12)) it follows that detection of the unknown signal is based on the computation of the functional in the first approximation [7] [8]: where ( ) ( ) -energy process spectra before and after the current time t, , l h f f -lower and upper frequency range of the signal.
Looking at Figure 3, you can see: Figure 3.The results of the optimal detector Hanford (H1)-blue line, Livingston (L1)red line.
-Confident detection signals according to the observatory L1, H1; signal arrived first at L1 and ≤ 10 ms later at H1; arrival time at L1 earlier 16.4 sec.

Definition of Signal Waveforms Using Filtration
This is done using a two-stage causal filtering: 1st step.Butterworth filter, 35 -350 Hz band, the filter order = 8.
According to [5] [6], the amplitude of the wave phases №4 -7 1), and their frequency is greater than 80 Hz and below 250 Hz, so after a two-stage filtration ( ( ) AFC 1 H f ≈ ), these wave phases have not practically change.
However, these wave phases are not observed in the time interval 16.39 sec -16.45 sec in Figure 4, and there are pulse signals (amplitude signals from This apparent contradiction, and thereby violated №1 invariance property.
Similarly, we can be sure of violating the invariance property №2.
In more detail the detected signals are represented in Figure 4 (Regime "Magnifier").
They have the property of solitons: the higher the frequency, the greater the amplitude, max max , Spectra of these signals are shown in Figure 5.
It follows from Figure 5: Spectrum of Signal L1 is a higher frequency than spectrum of signal H1 and invariants (№3, 4) are not performed.
This is a clear contradiction to the declared data about detected signals [5] [6], and contradicts the invariance properties of the spectra of signals at filtering (Invariants№№3, 4).
It means:

Discussion of Processing Results
Different types of filtration are used in detection of signal with a priori unknown form: bandpass, whitening(rectify), etc. [7] [8].
In [5] [6] abandoned this approbated way of whitening of noises.Whitening (rectify) is proposed to conduct in the frequency domain in [5] [6], using the equation: The transfer function of the whitening filter is in [5] [6]: ( ) ( ) ( ) This function has a zero phase.
For example, the Butterworth filter is physically realizable (causal) filter.
If the real (true) signals shown in Figure 1, the effect of change in frequency observed well by 0.33 seconds by which you can visually detect signals.With such a difference between the spectra of processes that can be seen before and after 0.33 seconds in Figure 1, obviously the optimum detector would detect these signals (Equation ( 13)).
However, the detection of the signal is observed on the 0.395 sec on the results of optimal detector (Figure 2, red line) using the input data The difference between the times of the signal arrivals indicates a contradiction with the assumption of trueness of image of waveform in Figure 1.
The difference, which is equal to 60 milliseconds, is the result of violation of the principle of causality in the processing of registration data [5] [6].
The reason is that the transfer function (Equation ( 15)) defines a physically unrealizable (not causal) filter, its impulse response contains non-zero values for t < 0, and the use of such a filter leads to false detection of signals, shifts the time of their arrival and distortion of their forms (Figure 6) [13] [14].
Chirp signals are not visible after causal filtering (Figure 4, Figure 6), the chirp signals (Figure 1) are false, obtained by the not causal filtering (Equation ( 14), Equation ( 15)).7) Physical unrealizability (not causal) filter is used to whitening the registration data in [5] [6] and it leads to a false detection signals.

Conclusions
8) It is necessary to be based on the principle of causality when processing signals in physics experiments.
P.S.This article describes a repeatable physical experiment.
Initial data are known: parameters of used Butterworth filters, time intervals of registration and also file names.

F
t -the signal amplitude; f 0 -the carrier frequency; φ 0 -the initial phase; β-the speed of change of frequency; max , F min -minimum and maximum value of the signal frequency; Ts-signal duration.These signals are called linear frequency modulated (LFM) signals.

Figure 1 .
Figure 1.Top part.The gravitational-wave event GW150914 observed by the LIGO Hanford (H1, left column panels) and Livingston (L1, right column panels) detectors.Times are shown relative to September 14, 2015 at 09:50:45 UTC.For visualization, all time series are filtered with a 35 -350 Hz band-pass filter to suppress large fluctuations outside the detectors' most sensitive frequency band, and band-reject filters to remove the strong instrumental spectral lines [5].Declared time of the entry signal (0.39 s) indicated by blue circles [5].Numbers and frequencies of wave phases (left): The true signal entry into 0.33 s (green circle).Bottom part: Experimental templates on observatories ( ) H s t = ⊗ = ⊗ -filtered processes after bandpass filtering in the band [35 ÷ 350 Hz].The procedure for testing the hypothesis of the presence of chirp signals in the records: inevitable conclusion about doubtfulness of the detected signals, which are stated in [5] [6].

Figure 2 .
Figure 2. (a) The results of the matched filter ( ) L h t ,

Figure 4 .
Figure 4. (a) Recordings of filtered information, the time interval 13.2 sec -16.8 sec.(b) Recordings of filtered information, the time interval 16.2 sec -16.5 sec.Recordings of filtered information, the time interval 16.425 sec -16.445 sec.Regime "Magnifier".For a visual comparison the L1 data are inverted.

1 F
transfer function of the whitening filter; − -inverse Fourier transform.

1 )
Chirp signals are absent in data LIGO 14.09.2015.This is established by means of a matched filter and two-stage filtration, therefore signals of the merger of black holes are absent in these data.

Figure 6 . 4 )
Figure 6.The results of the processing of the same registration data.Left part-causal filtering, the right part-not causal filtering.