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Re: Second Gravitational Wave event confirmed!

From moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney)
Newsgroups sci.physics, sci.astro
Subject Re: Second Gravitational Wave event confirmed!
Date 2016-06-18 04:59 +0000
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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> writes:

>> 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:

In the online story I read, the black hole masses were 14.2 and 7.5 solar
masses and the resulting final black hole was about 20.8 solar masses,
producing 0.9 solar masses of gravitational radiation.  But the
uncertainties in all figures was rather large.

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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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