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On correlated noise in the LIGO-Virgo network: a test of the stochastic gravitational-wave background hypothesis

S. C. Ulhoa; B. C. C. Carneiro; F. L. Carneiro; L. V. A. Cunha · 2026

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identifier / locator: arxiv:2607.10816
url: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.10816
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reliability notes: Unrefereed preprint (arXiv v1, 12 Jul 2026, gr-qc). Extends the Creswell cross-correlation test to nine O2/O3 events and three detector pairs including Virgo.
Does not mention CCC or erebons anywhere in the text; its interpretation of persistent off-source correlation as a stochastic gravitational-wave background is the authors' own and is framed within a teleparallel-gravity argument (their ref. [16]).
Admitted as weak context on the empirical premise of CCC-C505 only; the authors' own whitened re-run removes their single anomalous result (§IV.B).

Evidence drawn from this source

Context· weakCCC-E077

what the source states: In an analysis extending Creswell et al. to nine O2/O3 candidate events and all three detector pairs with a band-pass-only pipeline, "In 26 of 27 pair-measurements, the event peak is statistically indistinguishable" from the corresponding noise ensemble of N = 200 off-source windows.
what we infer: Recorded as context only: the paper never mentions CCC or erebons, and its background interpretation is the authors' own. It bears on CCC-C505 solely in keeping the question of correlated inter-detector structure open across instruments Penrose's conjecture did not consider; on its own it moves nothing.
limitations: Unrefereed preprint.
The statistic is shown by the source itself to be non-robust under whitening; the authors' interpretation departs from the LIGO–Virgo consensus.