The paper itself doesn't make any estimates of the equivalence between those three solar masses of energy and numbers of supernovas. I agree, those numbers seem bogus. I think Astronomy Magazine got it wrong. Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 11, 2016, at 5:30 PM, Dave Gary <davegary@me.com> wrote:
Sorry guys. I posted before I had looked at the list.
Dave
On Feb 11, 2016, at 14:08, Dale Hooper <dchooper5@gmail.com> wrote:
In case anyone is interested, here is a link to the original journal article.
http://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Joan Carman <jcarman6@q.com> wrote:
I read the whole article and my brain is still spinning. Not sure which way is up at the moment, but I love the idea of probing the unknown with unknowns or something like that....
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Hards" <chuck.hards@gmail.com> To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2016 1:09:51 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Gravitational Wave Discovery
Big news, indeed!
What puzzles me is how you get 5,000 supernova's worth of gravity wave energy from 3 solar masses. (3rd paragraph of the announcement)
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 12:43 PM, Dale Hooper <dchooper5@gmail.com> wrote:
In case some of you haven't heard the big news: http://astronomy.com/bonus/gravity?spMailingID=24700511&spUserID=MTE2MjkxMDk...
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