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GCN Circular 24591

Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190518bb: Retraction of GW compact binary merger candidate
Date
2019-05-18T20:08:37Z (6 years ago)
From
Geoffrey Mo at LIGO <geoffrey.mo@ligo.org>
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration report:

The trigger S190518bb is no longer considered to be a gravitational
wave signal.

The data in LIGO-Hanford was highly non-stationary leading up to the
reported trigger time.
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