| Abstract: | Recently, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration published the second observation of a gravitational wave, GW151226 Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 241103(2016)], from a binary black hole coalescence with initial masses about 14 M and 8 M. They claimed that the peak gravitational strain was reached at about 450 Hz, the inverse of which is longer than the average time a photon stays in the Fabry-Perot cavities in the two arms.In this case, the phase-difference of a photon in the two arms due to the propagation of a gravitational wave does not always increase as the photon stays in the cavities. It might even be cancelled to zero in extreme cases. When the propagation effect is taken into account, we find that the claimed signal GW151226 almost disappears. |
