Sunday, October 15, 2017
Gravitational waves again - should be exciting
There is going to be a big press conference tomorrow, apparently to announce that LIGO/VIRGO has seen an event (binary neutron star collision) directly associated with a gamma ray burst in NGC 4993. Fun stuff, and apparently the worst-kept secret in science right now. This may seem off-topic for a condensed matter blog, but there's physics in there which isn't broadly appreciated, and I'll write a bit about it after the announcement.
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Yes, we live in exciting times! Here is the Astrophysical Journal Letters paper (open access):
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aa91c9
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