| Tuesday 25 March 2025 | |
| Events for day: Sunday 11 August 2024 |
| 14:30 - 16:00 Special Seminar - Virtual Format Search for echoes on the edge of quantum black holes School PARTICLES AND ACCELERATORS Abstract: I perform a template-based search for stimulated emission of Hawking radiation (or Boltzmann echoes) by combining the gravitational wave data from 47 binary black hole merger events observed by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration. With a Bayesian inference approach, I found no statistically significant evidence for this signal in either of the 3 Gravitational Wave Transient Catalogs GWTC-1, GWTC-2 and GWTC-3. However, the data cannot yet conclusively rule out the presence of Boltzmann echoes either, with the Bayesian evidence ranging within 0.3-1.6 for most events, and a common (non-vanishing) echo amplitude for all mergers ... |