https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1602.03844/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11104544urn:hackerpapers:mention:1602.03844:11104544Mon, 15 Feb 2016 17:23:14 GMT<p>A lot of this information seems to be available, for example figure 4 here[1]. According to that, the horizon distance for &quot;a binary black hole system with the same observed spin and mass parameters as GW150914 for optimal sky location and source orientation and detected with an SNR of 8&quot; was 1.5-2 Gpc. Now we only need an estimate of the rate at which events with these properties occur, not using the data from GW150914. I presume this is somewhat (a few orders of magnitude) less than the rate at which the mergers occur in general. [1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.03844</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1602.03844/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>gr-qc