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GCN Circular 26785

Subject
LIGO/Virgo S200116ah: Retraction of GW compact binary merger candidate
Event
LIGO/Virgo S200116ah
Date
2020-01-16T12:28:22Z (6 years ago)
From
Erik Katsavounidis at MIT <kats@ligo.mit.edu>
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration report:

The trigger S200116ah is no longer considered to be a candidate of

interest. The candidate is attributed to non-stationary noise in the L1

detector and is not significant without the contribution from L1.
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