Astrophysicists do a 3-day long AMA about the discovery of gravitational waves

Re:Astrophysicists do a 3-day long AMA about the discovery o... by danbruc on Sunday February 14, 2016 @05:45PM (#11100362)

I am not sure if it was already asked, I read the Reddit thread a day or two ago, but were there additional events after the first one or was it the only one so far?

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Re:Astrophysicists do a 3-day long AMA about the discovery o... by abecedarius on Sunday February 14, 2016 @08:11PM (#11100926)

I'm just a bystander, but: the paper mentions another, weaker signal in the time period they wrote up (18 days IIRC). That one had an estimated false-signal rate of once in a couple years (the main one was more like once a century).

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Re:Astrophysicists do a 3-day long AMA about the discovery o... by kgwgk on Monday February 15, 2016 @03:03AM (#11102046)

> (the main one was more like once a century).

More like once in 200'000 years, actually.

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Re:Astrophysicists do a 3-day long AMA about the discovery o... by abecedarius on Monday February 15, 2016 @11:12AM (#11104091)

Thanks.

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