Message #20658

[mccoy]

Steve, now it appears that you have little problems in construing the graphs, yes they are the best so far and show how similar the signal is in the two devices, located at the opposite angles of the USA.
The far left and far right sides of the graph might depict either background noise; the far right side may also depict smaller gravitational waves of the continuos type, emitted by the new blackhole while it's rotating on its axis, due to some imperfection in the spherical simmetry.
We do not have the whole recording so we cannot say, although it is very likely that we are dealing with background noise, random oscillations of the measurement device or even of the gravitational field itself. I'll try and see if a longer stretch of the recording is available.

What I did not understand yet how they could predict the event (smoother signal), maybe they just foresaw a set of possible patterns, encompassing the likely events. What is clear is that the computational power used by the project is immense.