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I wonder if the recent nova event visible with the naked eye can be used to do an experimental measurement... or perhaps it has to be a supernova as the article
by mladenkovacevic 13y ago
I wonder if the recent nova event visible with the naked eye can be used to do an experimental measurement... or perhaps it has to be a supernova as the article suggests.
- codezero 13y agoI am guessing it has to be a supernova on account of there being many novae discovered/observed each year.
- pdonis 13y agoYes, any gravitational radiation from a nova would be much weaker than from a supernova. As the article notes, unless the supernova is very close to us, our current detectors can't detect the gravitational waves from a supernova, so they certainly wouldn't be able to pick them up from a nova.