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> How many supernovae do we see at any time in any given segment of the sky, and what is the likelihood that it would have happened to be in whatever ~1/20 spatial angle the Gw detectors happen to have resolutions over, and out of the other n candidate neutron-neutron mergers we've "detected" what are the odds that we wouldn't have seen a supernova in the EM by chance in all of the others?

The data's all publicly available. You go ahead, do the general relativity, and tell us.



GR is unnecessary. This is a question of statistics.

>The data's all publicly available

No, they are not. Even if it were, the software and algorithms to do the statistical analysis on the raw data are not open source.


I think the data is all publicly available, complete with software, sample python notebooks, tutorials etc.

https://gwosc.org/ and https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/ligo-data




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