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
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