04-26-2019, 09:23 PM
Another merger event?
Some might remember the recent LIGO discovery of gravitational waves. In the last couple of nights, including tonight, telescopes around the world are looking to find a new source of gravitational waves, including UKIRT. The exact position of the merger event (i.e., two massive objects merging together and creating an explosion of gravitational waves) is unknown, but hopefully MK observatories will find it and help understand what happened.
This was the initial alert:
https://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/gcn3/24168.gcn3
I'll post an update once I know more.
Some might remember the recent LIGO discovery of gravitational waves. In the last couple of nights, including tonight, telescopes around the world are looking to find a new source of gravitational waves, including UKIRT. The exact position of the merger event (i.e., two massive objects merging together and creating an explosion of gravitational waves) is unknown, but hopefully MK observatories will find it and help understand what happened.
This was the initial alert:
https://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/gcn3/24168.gcn3
I'll post an update once I know more.