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In the press conference Kip Thorne mentioned that the estimates were for several events per year, before sensitivity upgrades.
by misnome 11y ago
In the press conference Kip Thorne mentioned that the estimates were for several events per year, before sensitivity upgrades.
- davrosthedalek 11y agoBut he neglected to mention the error bars on this, which AFAIK are huge at least for BH-BH mergers. Every time we built a new instrument, we saw something new, whether in astrophysics, or nuclear physics, or particle physics. Maybe the BH-BH rate is much higher than expected.