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Re: LIGO

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Steven Carlip wrote:

> On 6/16/16 3:18 PM, Michael Moroney wrote:
>> Apparently there is a third event, from October 12, 2015, that has not
>> (yet?) been confirmed.
> 
> It was actually already reported in the first paper.  It's
> characterized as a "trigger" rather than an "event" -- it's
> *probably* a gravitational wave signal from another binary
> black hole merger, but there's about a 5-10% chance that it
> could be noise.  More details are in arxiv.org/abs/1606.04856.

First of all, when you refer to resources, you should post URIs; not only is 
that unambiguous, it is also more convenient for many readers since their 
software would create hyperlinks.  Additionally, in this case you should not 
refer to the version on the preprint server, arXiv.org, but to the official 
version since (AFAIK) all the LSC and VC’s papers can be read online for 
free.

<https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-P1600088/main/public> referenced in 
<https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/detection-companion-papers>

Second, from where do you have those figures?  The abstract of that paper 
says:

“[…] It also identified a third possible signal, LVT151012, with 
substantially lower significance, which has a 87% probability of being of 
astrophysical origin. […]”

That is a _13_ % chance of being noise, is it not?

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LIGO moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2016-06-15 21:10 +0000
  Re: LIGO moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2016-06-16 13:18 +0000
    Re: LIGO Steven Carlip <carlip@physics.ucdavis.edu> - 2016-06-18 10:13 +0200
      Re: LIGO Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-06-18 11:06 +0200
        Re: LIGO Steven Carlip <carlip@physics.ucdavis.edu> - 2016-06-21 23:20 -0700
          Re: LIGO Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-06-25 00:09 +0200
  Re: LIGO moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2016-06-18 15:36 +0000
    Re: LIGO "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2016-06-18 10:04 -0700
      Re: LIGO Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-06-20 14:41 -0500
        Re: LIGO "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2016-06-20 22:07 -0700
          Re: LIGO Odd Bodkin <bodkinodd@gmail.com> - 2016-06-21 08:30 -0500

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