[danyala]

> The signal comes as a burst, initially having no gravitational wave content, followed by an oscillatory period with a characteristic frequency of order 1/[R]

Interesting...

> As discussed above, for a 1km-sized ship, the frequency of the signal is much higher than the range probed by existing detectors, and so current observations cannot constrain the occurrence of such events

And yet, you still chose the word ;)

So, how big are the ships, as a kindness for readers such as myself for whom the exercise should not be left?

https://www.ligo.org/science/GW-Burst.php