1 | In terms of event rates the current best estimates for neutron-star–binary merger rates, based on the known population of
neutron-star–binary systems, gives a 95% confidence interval between 1 – 1000 × 10–6 per year per Milky Way
Equivalent Galaxy (MWEG), where MWEG is equivalent to a volume that contains a blue light luminosity with
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3 | There is currently a plan that has been approved by the LIGO Laboratory and the NSF to potentially construct one of the Hanford detectors at a site in Australia [225], although this is reliant on construction and running costs being provided by the Australian government. Such an observatory in the southern hemisphere would greatly improve sky localisation of any transient sources and enhance electromagnetic follow-up observations (e.g., [91]). |
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Living Rev. Relativity 14, (2011), 5
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