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GCN Circular 24656

Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190524q: Retraction of GW compact binary merger candidate
Event
LIGO/Virgo S190524q
Date
2019-05-24T05:20:40Z (6 years ago)
Edited On
2025-04-09T18:43:14Z (6 months ago)
From
Brandon Piotrzkowski at U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee <piotrzk3@uwm.edu>
Edited By
Judith Racusin at NASA/GSFC <judith.racusin@nasa.gov> on behalf of Tyler Barna at University of Minnesota <tylerpbarna@gmail.com>
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration report:


The trigger S190524q is no longer considered to be a gravitational

wave signal.


The data in LIGO-Livingston were highly non-stationary leading up to

the reported trigger time.
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