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GCN Circular 20520

Subject
LIGO/Virgo G270580: No change to estimate of LIGO false alarm probability
Date
2017-01-25T03:02:04Z (8 years ago)
From
Peter Shawhan at U of Maryland/LSC <pshawhan@umd.edu>
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo report:

The Coherent WaveBurst event candidate of 2017-01-20, with GraceDB ID
G270580, was initially reported (LSC and Virgo, GCN 20486) with an
estimated false alarm rate (FAR) of 1.6e-7 Hz, or about 5 per year.
Offline re-analysis has not changed this estimate.  At this time, we
do not have any evidence suggesting that the significance of this
event will increase on further study.
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