Posted: Feb 07, 2017 5:15 pm
LIGO detection: documentary on the discovery...
Don't know what happened at the end there - event horizon crossing?
From ligo.org
Don't know what happened at the end there - event horizon crossing?
From ligo.org
UPDATE ON LIGO'S SECOND OBSERVING RUN
28 January 2017 --
The second Advanced LIGO run began on November 30, 2016 and is currently in progress. As of January 23 approximately 12 days of Hanford-Livingston coincident science data have been collected, with a scheduled break between December 22, 2016 and January 4, 2017. Average reach of the LIGO network for binary merger events have been around 70 Mpc for 1.4+1.4 Msun, 300 Mpc for 10+10 Msun and 700 Mpc for 30+30 Msun mergers, with relative variations in time of the order of 10%.
So far, 2 event candidates, identified by online analysis using a loose false-alarm-rate threshold of one per month, have been identified and shared with astronomers who have signed memoranda of understanding with LIGO and Virgo for observational followup. A thorough investigation of the data and offline analysis are in progress; results will be shared when available.
- See more at: http://www.ligo.org/news/index.php#O2Jan2017update