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		pfdietz on April 8, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: When a black hole and a neutron star merge I'm assuming there was no gamma ray burst detected at that time, or else the press release would have mentioned it.

changoplatanero on April 8, 2024 [–]

I bet it’s much harder to detect the gamma ray burst if you don’t know what direction to look since only one of the gravitational wave detectors was running

pfdietz on April 8, 2024 | [–]

Short GRBs are detected by omnidirectional detectors; they're so short there's no time to alter detector orientation.

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