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Re:LIGO Detects Most Massive Black Hole Merger to Date by robin_reala on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @04:12AM (#44569037)
Given that there’s a handful of gravitational-wave observatories running globally at this point, why does the closure of one LIGO wreck triangulation?
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Re:LIGO Detects Most Massive Black Hole Merger to Date by agos on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @07:16AM (#44569961)
the collaboration to be able to triangulate is composed of LIGO, Virgo and now KAGRA. KAGRA is not yet fully ready for longer observation runs, so for now it's basically LIGO and Virgo - and if you take offline one of three, triangulation becomes nearly useless
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Re:LIGO Detects Most Massive Black Hole Merger to Date by robin_reala on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @08:55AM (#44570648)
Looking at their Grafana dashboard, it looks like GEO600 and KAGRA are both observing? https://online.ligo.org/grafana/public-dashboards/1a0efabe65...
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