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How exciting is the stuff the Pulsar project members can learn about their assumptions and methods, now, that they know they didn't see what they were looking for, even though it was indeed there
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As for the Pulsar Timing Array, that is a very interesting results. According to the models, they should have seen something and they didn't. So that says something about the models, which in turn is very interesting.
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>>read (in the comment section) that the Pulsar Timing Array is looking for a different kind/source of GW: higher amplitudes but much much lower in frequency. Like from binary supermassive BH within 2 merging galaxies.
Ligo is not designed to detect those kind of waves and vice versa.
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Binary supermassive black holes - that's also the subject of observation of the future eLISA in 2035, with a laser beam length of 1 million km. Well, sexy, but... that's kind of too much in the future for my attention span.
A mission for an eLisa instrument test, "Lisa Pathfinder", is going to go into science mode on March 1st.
Here, the laser beam is shortened to 38cm to fit into 1 spacecraft.
The test is about gaining info on the "rulers'" functionality and exactness in a free fall environment, which can not be obtained on Earth.
I would follow the mission or eLISA on Facebook. Only to keep being reminded of - and through that, possibly commit into long term memory what I understood so far.
But they don't have their own page. Just not sexy enough...
Ah well.