This is the first article I've read about this project that focuses on the noise aspect of the signal.
Most articles on the subject mention that the signal they're detecting comes from many, many binary pairs, each generating what is presumably a roughly sinusoidal GW signal. But if you overlay many sine waves of unrelated frequencies, you end up with noise.
The wavelength they're probing is 10-15 LY (the project's been running for 15 years). No article that I've read goes into the character of the binary pairs they suggest is the source, but presumably they have orbital periods in the 10-15 year range, so they must be separated by at least that distance.
Most articles on the subject mention that the signal they're detecting comes from many, many binary pairs, each generating what is presumably a roughly sinusoidal GW signal. But if you overlay many sine waves of unrelated frequencies, you end up with noise.
The wavelength they're probing is 10-15 LY (the project's been running for 15 years). No article that I've read goes into the character of the binary pairs they suggest is the source, but presumably they have orbital periods in the 10-15 year range, so they must be separated by at least that distance.
/me strictly a layman