Why can't we just measure the gravity waves from the Sun?
Anonymous
23 Jan 2006 15:44:09 UTC
Topic 13248
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Guido:
Because the acceleration of the Sun about the galaxy center is extremely small the
GW the system emits are extremely weak. The strongest GW emitter in our neighborhood is Mercury which is still way too weak to be detected by any means foreseeable in the near term.
This is correct. Another reason is that the frequency of the waves is f = 2/year = 6 x 10^{-8} Hz. LIGO and other ground based detectors are sensitive to the frequency range from 50 Hz to 5000 Hz.