News Finding: In addition, the researchers found that this new technique could also quickly analyze mergers that are more complex than current software can analyze, such as mergers involving black holes in eccentric orbits.
Paper Finding: There were zero false alarms af- ter enforcing the constraint that the detection should be made simultaneously in multiple detectors.
News Context: Moreover, whereas conventional methods would need thousands of CPUs (the central processing units of computers) to perform this task, the new technique worked "even with a single CPU -- that is, with your smartphone or a standard laptop," Huerta said. In addition, the researchers found that this new technique could also quickly analyze mergers that are more complex than current software can analyze, such as mergers involving black holes in eccentric orbits. The new software also had lower error rates and was better at spotting glitches in the data.
Paper Context: This signal was correctly identified by the classifier at the true position in time and each of the predicted component masses were within the published error bars [2] . There were zero false alarms af- ter enforcing the constraint that the detection should be made simultaneously in multiple detectors. This shows that deep learning is able to generalize to real GW signals after being trained only with simulated GW templates injected into LIGO noise from other events with different PSDs.