<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 11:37 AM, Chris Hibbert </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:hibbert@mydruthers.com" target="_blank">hibbert@mydruthers.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>A friend told me last night he went to a talk at Stanford on LIGO, and the unit of reference was Giga-cubic parsecs/year. Now that's a unit to take your breath away!<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">More fun to come! LIGO's observing run is scheduled to last about 6 months and then the next upgrade starts, </font></div><font size="4"> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">but before that, sometime this Spring, the Virgo Gravitational Wave detector near Pisa Italy not far from where Galileo did his gravitational experiments should come online. With a detector in Italy and the 2 LIGO ones in Louisiana and Washington State they will be able to triangulate and pinpoint the source of the gravitational wave and know where to point our telescopes and see if there is a optical, radio or X Ray counterpart. And in 2018 the KAGRA detector in Japan should come online and unlike the others it's cooled down to cryogenic temperatures, so it should be the most sensitive of the lot. </div></font></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"><br></font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"> John K Clark </font></div></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br></blockquote></div></div></div>