LIGO announcement spoiler alert (Patreon)
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Tune in tomorrow here if you want to catch the announcement: https://www.youtube.com/c/VideosatNSF/live
For those of you who like to know stuff before everyone else, here's the scoop: The announcement will be the detection of gravitational waves from merging neutron stars, which were also spotted as a short gamma ray burst (sGRB) - a phenomenon already believed to be the result of merging NSs. The event was also detected in x-rays, UV, visible, infrared, and radio light. We already talked about this in a previous episode when the rumour first came out (https://youtu.be/kL81uuYW9BY) but I now have confirmation from an author of one of the (many) papers on the subject that will appear on the archive tomorrow.
- Matt