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Re: Second Gravitational Wave event confirmed!

From Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Newsgroups sci.physics, sci.astro
Subject Re: Second Gravitational Wave event confirmed!
Followup-To sci.physics
Date 2016-06-18 05:12 +0200
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Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> wrote:
^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Sammy’s got a new pseudonym but no e-mail address?

> […] I wonder how much of their energy was turned into gravity
                                                        ^^^^^^^
> waves? In the first event, a 29 and a 36 solar mass black holes turned
  ^^^^^
> into 5 solar masses of gravity waves, and 60 solar mass of newly formed
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^      ^^
> black hole.

“In the source frame, the initial black hole masses are 36⁺⁵₋₄ M⊙ and 
29⁺⁴₋₄ M⊙, and the final black hole mass is /62⁺⁴₋₄ M⊙/, with 
/3.0^{+0.5}_{−0.5} M⊙ c²/ radiated in /gravitational/ waves [0].” [1]

(emphasis and reference mine)

> Going proportionally, the secondary black holes are 8 & 14, so I would
> guess that would result in 2 solar masses of gravity waves, and 20 solar
> masses of new black hole.

Not quite.  If you read the paper at PRL (which you can for free again, 
thank you LSC and VC), you will realize that naive arithmetics does not work 
because mass–energy is only one component of a body’s energy:

“The inferred source-frame initial black hole masses are 
14.2^{+8.3}_{−3.7} M⊙ and 7.5^{+2.3}_{−2.3} M⊙, and the final black hole 
mass is 20.8^{+6.1}_{−1.7} M⊙.” [2] 

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[0] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_wave>
    vs. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_wave>
[1] B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo 
    Collaboration). Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 061102.
    <http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102>
[2] B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo 
    Collaboration). Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 241103.
    <http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.241103>
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Second Gravitational Wave event confirmed! Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2016-06-16 15:43 -0400
  Re: Second Gravitational Wave event confirmed! willner@cfa.harvard.edu (Steve Willner) - 2016-06-17 21:22 +0000
    Re: Second Gravitational Wave event confirmed! Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-06-18 00:01 +0200
      Re: Second Gravitational Wave event confirmed! "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2016-06-18 09:05 -0700
      Re: Second Gravitational Wave event confirmed! Dr J R Stockton <reply1600@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2016-06-18 14:49 +0100
        Re: Second Gravitational Wave event confirmed! Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-06-19 07:47 +0200
    Re: Second Gravitational Wave event confirmed! Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2016-06-17 20:45 -0400
      Re: Second Gravitational Wave event confirmed! Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2016-06-18 05:12 +0200
        Re: Second Gravitational Wave event confirmed! moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2016-06-18 04:59 +0000
      Re: Second Gravitational Wave event confirmed! willner@cfa.harvard.edu (Steve Willner) - 2016-06-30 18:40 +0000
  Re: Second Gravitational Wave event confirmed! "Y.Porat" <y.y.porat@gmail.com> - 2016-06-17 23:10 -0700
    Re: Second Gravitational Wave event confirmed! john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-06-18 06:44 -0700
      Re: Second Gravitational Wave event confirmed! Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-06-18 15:59 +0200
      Re: Second Gravitational Wave event confirmed! moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2016-06-18 15:05 +0000
        Re: Second Gravitational Wave event confirmed! john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-06-18 08:46 -0700
          Re: Second Gravitational Wave event confirmed! moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2016-06-18 16:04 +0000
            Re: Second Gravitational Wave event confirmed! "reber g=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2016-06-18 12:09 -0700
      Re: Second Gravitational Wave event confirmed! HVAC <mr.hvac@gmail.com> - 2016-06-18 08:44 -0700
        Re: Second Gravitational Wave event confirmed! john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-06-18 08:50 -0700
        Re: Second Gravitational Wave event confirmed! moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2016-06-18 15:52 +0000
          Re: Second Gravitational Wave event confirmed! john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-06-18 09:01 -0700
            Re: Second Gravitational Wave event confirmed! moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2016-06-18 16:06 +0000
              Re: Second Gravitational Wave event confirmed! john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-06-18 09:17 -0700
                Re: Second Gravitational Wave event confirmed! moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2016-06-18 19:20 +0000
                Re: Second Gravitational Wave event confirmed! john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-06-18 12:27 -0700
                Re: Second Gravitational Wave event confirmed! moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2016-06-18 19:38 +0000
                Re: Second Gravitational Wave event confirmed! john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2016-06-18 15:58 -0700
                Re: Second Gravitational Wave event confirmed! moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2016-06-18 23:37 +0000

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