Now getting back to release data

As is normal for science all the data for the signal release has been published including the signal processing code and algorithms.

https://losc.ligo.org/s/events/GW150914/GW150914_tutorial.html

There will be 4 LIGO's online by January and the detections and data will be made public in realtime. As the new sensors obviously have the required sensitivity the detections will be continually coming in. There is work to increase the detector sensitivity by an estimated 10 fold and that will increase the detection rate even higher.

One of the two new detectors will obviously be Virgo in Italy but the 4th detector site to be operational by January isn't so obvious. Doing some asking about that at the moment and I will let you know when I get an answer. I would expect China and Russia will be scrambling with plans to get involved.

This is going to be like the first telescope and radio telescope, the data is suddenly going to start pouring in now the detection thresholds have been achieved. The really interesting stuff will be when we can project something going to happen with normal telescopes and then watch for the signal with ligo.

The first detection data is currently up but only available for creditted users. The first screenshots provided by Lubos show the current listings

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://losc.ligo.org/timeline/query/GW151226/

You can see the two new entries GW151012 & GW151226 as well as background data which are obviously close to publication so stay tuned.

Last edited by Orac; 02/14/16 02:16 PM.

I believe in "Evil, Bad, Ungodly fantasy science and maths", so I am undoubtedly wrong to you.