GW170817 Spectrogram + Template Audio

This movie shows the LIGO and VIRGO observations of the gravitational wave GW170817. In the LIGO Hanford and LIGO Livingston panels, GW170817 appears as a blue-green/yellow curve. This "chirp" signal turns sharply upward near time 0 seconds, which is 5:41:04AM PDT on August 17, 2017. The movie converts a theoretical model of the observed wave into sound at the same frequencies as the model wave's. Credit: LIGO/Virgo/Lovelace, Brown, Macleod, McIver, Nitz