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Reword p_astro paragraph for terseness

Leo P. Singer requested to merge leo-singer/ligo-followup-advocate:p-astro-reword into master

Reword the p_astro statement to improve terseness, use an apporpriate number of digits, and keep it near the closely related em_bright paragraph.

Note that I added a macro to render very high probabilities as ">99%" and very low probabilities as "<1%", which is now used in both the p_astro and the em_bright paragraphs.

The text was:

The categorical astrophysical probabilities for the candidate
event as computed by the P_astro pipeline are:
 BNS probability: 0.8593197490253501
 BBH probability: 0.0
 NSBH probability: 0.0
 Terrestrial probability: 0.1406802509746499

The text is now:

The classification of the signal, in order of descending confidence,
is BNS (78%), terrestrial (22%), BBH (<1%), or NSBH (<1%).

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