MIsCORE–RIUD: Unknown Physics in Black-Hole Mergers — From Undiscovered Residual Structure to Integrated Merger Dynamics

Abstract

RIUD (Residual Is Undiscovered Data) is a residual-first observational framework for retaining, localizing, testing, and progressively classifying structured post-model data before assigning a physical origin. This integrated volume presents Papers I–IV as a sequential research lineage from localized detector-coherent morphology to connected paths, raw-strain and conditional-phase support, partially shared path dynamics, and a population-level state system with a frozen physical ordering coordinate and transition clock. The accompanying Paper V branches extend this framework to source-native SXS and matched pure-GR representations. The analysis preserves object-specific statistical contracts, negative results, provenance, search-aware controls, and explicit claim boundaries. The generating mechanism remains unresolved; the results do not establish a violation of general relativity, Beyond-GR physics, or quantum gravity. This record contains the integrated Papers I–IV volume together with the R1 claim-evidence numerical companion, including the Paper V SXS/pure-GR follow-up branches. The companion preserves the frozen Paper IV execution chain, source files, numerical outputs, design and role locks, manifests, SHA-256 records, lineage metadata, and verification assets supporting the published claims. The bundled Paper IV verifier passes all defined checks, and Holdout30 remains inaccessible. The SXS analyses are source-native cross-representation tests rather than exact replays of the LIGO detector-residual frontend. They test whether RIUD-compatible path structure and intrinsic progression persist in pure-GR source-native representations. Accordingly, the release does not claim exact LIGO residual replay, exact detector-noise reproduction, an exact identity between MT and a source-side merger time, or new physics. The companion is not a complete raw-to-final reproduction archive. Large public GWOSC inputs, full runtime intermediates, and the complete historical executable archives for Papers I–III are not included. Papers I–III are preserved through integrated numerical results, chronology, lineage, crosswalk, and provenance records; their full re-execution requires the corresponding historical source archives.