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Old February 18th 07, 04:16 PM posted to sci.astro
Ian Parker
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Default LIGO and Virgo Join Forces In Search for Gravitational Waves (Forwarded)

This is probably the best that that can be done on Earth. It should be
remembered that Gravitons have a spin of 2 and are quadrupolar. Let us
look at the wavelengths we are likely to expect. The Sun has a
Schwatzchild radius of 27km. If you think of a supernova explosion,
black holes of stellar mass and things orbiting the same you get
wavelengths upwards of 2Pi*27km. Don't forget it is stars much more
massive than the Sun that explode.

One basline is 600m. This is a black hole the mass of a large Jupiter.
What phenomena could be detected?

If anything is detected it will be from a totally unknown type of
source.


- Ian Parker