And by Thursday, do train the English words "inspiral", "merger", and "ringdown" because what we will be told will be spectacular. They will claim to possess the confidence level 5.1 sigma, detection by both LIGO apparatuses, and a correct time delay between them. The masses of the black holes will be 36 and 29 solar masses at the beginning; and 62 for the resulting black hole. The reconstructed orbital speed will be almost exactly the speed of light. As a bonus, they will also observe the "ringdown to Kerr" at the end. Woohoo! [imagine how this word sounds in Swahili!]
http://motls.blogspot.com.tr/2016/02/ligo-wows-bh-masses-3629-to-62-suns-51.html
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/02/woohoo-email-stokes-rumor-gravitational-waves-have-been-spotted
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