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Search for Short Bursts of Gravitational Radiation

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Recent data from an experiment in Glasgow suggest that pulses of gravitational radiation of less than a few milliseconds duration are too infrequent to account for signals reported by Weber in 1970.

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    R. W. P. DREVER, J. HOUGH, R. BLAND & G. W. LESSNOFF

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DREVER, R., HOUGH, J., BLAND, R. et al. Search for Short Bursts of Gravitational Radiation. Nature 246, 340–344 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/246340a0

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