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GCN Circular 26463

Subject
LIGO/Virgo S191216ap: Correction to GCN 26460 (IceCube event coincident with GW event)
Date
2019-12-17T05:21:02Z (5 years ago)
From
Raamis Hussain at IceCube <raamis.hussain@icecube.wisc.edu>
The coordinates of the candidate neutrino event coincident with LIGO/Virgo
S191216ap circulated in the original GCN circular 26460 (
https://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/gcn3/26460.gcn3) contained an error. The correct
right ascension value is given in the table below:


  dt      ra(deg)   dec(deg)   90% Angular Uncertainty(deg)
p-value(generic transient) p-value(binary merger)

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 -43s   323.19     4.53       4.07                       0.219 0.0059


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follow-up observers.

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