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New localized LIGO event
Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2020 7:55 am
by notFritzArgelander
https://gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/S200114f/
Stay tuned.
Betelgeuse is still there.
It's a burst not a chirp from a merger so "It's time for something completely different."
Re: New localized LIGO event
Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2020 2:10 pm
by pakarinen
Well, it still was last night about 2100 CST anyway.
Re: New localized LIGO event
Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2020 4:50 pm
by notFritzArgelander
https://www.cnet.com/news/an-unknown-bu ... detectors/
It appears that this kind of event would be a false detection at a rate of 1 in 25 years of operation.
Re: New localized LIGO event
Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2020 8:13 pm
by helicon
Thanks notFritz. With regard to Betelgeuse non-astronomically minded friends who know I am an astro-nut are starting to ask me questions about this because of the mainstream media coverage. I tell them to just keep looking up and watch for an orange-red flash that will knock their socks off.
Re: New localized LIGO event
Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2020 8:19 pm
by notFritzArgelander
helicon wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2020 8:13 pm
Thanks notFritz. With regard to Betelgeuse non-astronomically minded friends who know I am an astro-nut are starting to ask me questions about this because of the mainstream media coverage. I tell them to just keep looking up and watch for an orange-red flash that will knock their socks off.
I think they're more likely to wait so long that disappointment will set in.
Re: New localized LIGO event
Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2020 8:28 pm
by prowler75
Sounds like an interesting event. Any speculation on what it could be?
Re: New localized LIGO event
Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2020 8:32 pm
by notFritzArgelander
prowler75 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2020 8:28 pm
Sounds like an interesting event. Any speculation on what it could be?
A dark SN (direct stellar collapse to black hole, but there should be neutrinos) a gamma ray burst directed away from us or a simple apparatus glitch.
Re: New localized LIGO event
Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2020 9:29 am
by notFritzArgelander
Re: New localized LIGO event
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2020 5:14 pm
by notFritzArgelander