Latest #GravitaitonalWave candidate #S250704ab
If real, the source is probably a binary black hole (chirp mass ~5.5β11 solar masses)
False alarm rate 1 in 100 yr
GraceDB https://gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/S250704ab
GCN https://gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/40935
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Happy birthday #GW150914! Looking back to our first #GravitaitonalWave discovery 9 years ago
https://cplberry.com/2016/02/11/gw150914/
Sunny Saturday afternoon #GravitaitonalWave candidate #S240907cg
If real, its source is probably a binary black hole
False alarm rate 1 in 35 yr
GraceDB https://gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/S240907cg/
GCN https://gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/37423
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My avatar pic is a doodle I drew for a LIGO Magazine article about how we infer the properties of a #GravitaitonalWave source for the signal, for example how we measure the masses of merging black holes
https://www.ligo.org/magazine/LIGO-magazine-issue-7.pdf#page=32
The Doodle shows Monty and Carla exploring the distribution of source masses. The names are a pun as we use Markov-chain Monte Carlo samplers as part of our analysis
Dr Christopher Berry