[ExI] Gravitational Waves Detected By LIGO!
John Clark
johnkclark at gmail.com
Sun Feb 14 16:06:38 UTC 2016
On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 2:52 AM, Tomaz Kristan <protokol2020 at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> You may be right, The fact that LIGO is currently down can explain a lot.
> But when it will go online again, we will see. If there will not be very
> frequent detections, of a much greater events also, this one was a fluke.
> For there is a constant rain of black holes onto those supermassives. Have
> to be.
> [...]
> By "rain" I mean at least one every second in the observable Universe. Had
> to be, for number reasons.
>
The number of gravity wave events that LIGO will be able to detect depends
on:
1) How big the black holes that merge are.
2) How far away the black holes are.
3) How common the much weaker source of 2 neutron stars merging is.
4) How sensitive LIGO is.
How did you calculate that "
at least one every second
" figure?
John K Clark
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