Reconstruction of Black Hole Ringdown Signals with Data Gaps using a Deep-Learning Framework
Abstract
We introduce DenoiseGapFiller (DGF), a deep-learning framework specifically designed to reconstruct gravitational-wave ringdown signals corrupted by data gaps and instrumental noise. DGF employs a dual-branch encoder-decoder architecture, which is fused via mixing layers and Transformer-style blocks. Trained end-to-end on synthetic ringdown waveforms with gaps up to 20% of the segment length, DGF can achieve a mean waveform mismatch of 0.002. The residual amplitudes of the Time-domain shrink by roughly an order of magnitude and the power spectral density in the 0.01-1 Hz band is suppressed by 1-2 orders of magnitude, restoring the peak of quasi-normal mode(QNM) in the time-frequency representation around 0.01-0.1 Hz. The ability of the model to faithfully reconstruct the original signals, which implies milder penalties in the detection evidence and tighter credible regions for parameter estimation, lay a foundation for the following scientific work.
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@article{arxiv.2511.00834,
title = {Reconstruction of Black Hole Ringdown Signals with Data Gaps using a Deep-Learning Framework},
author = {Jing-Qi Lai and Jia-Geng Jiao and Cai-Ying Shao and Jun-Xi Shi and Yu Tian},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.00834},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
15 pages, 12 figures. Code (research prototype) available at: https://github.com/ljq2088/RingdownGapFilling/tree/master