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I wonder if the event will be big enough to show up in gravity waves. There will be three detectors at least 'listening'.
by chillly 10y ago
I wonder if the event will be big enough to show up in gravity waves. There will be three detectors at least 'listening'.
- daveguy 10y agoIs that a regular event they listen for? I thought it was black holes colliding and a couple of average size stars wouldn't be significant enough to cause a blip. It would be awesome if they could tie a gravity wave event with an event visible to the naked eye.
- chillly 10y agoThey don't listen for specific events, they wouldn't know when they were going to happen. They wait for any detectable gravity wave to occur. I just don't know what the magnitude and distance of such an event would show up.
- detritus 10y agoWould the increased proximity of these two stars make up for this? I'm under the impression that the gravity wave detections so far have been colliding black holes billions of light years away - if these two are less than two thousand, might they be detectable (with current tech)?