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Old January 13th 19, 12:57 AM posted to sci.astro.research
Michael Asherman[_2_]
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Default LIGO sensitivity compared with the human eye

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a) LIGO can (easily) see a source at one billion light years
distance which emits the energy of 3 solar masses in 1 second
(like the black hole mergers!)


Does the figure of 3 solar masses include only gravitational energy, or is
it total energy including electromagnetic?