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GCN Circular 34728

Subject
LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S230918aq: Retraction of GW compact binary merger candidate
Date
2023-09-18T12:09:47Z (a year ago)
From
Michela Mapelli <michela.mapelli@inaf.it>
Via
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The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration report:

The trigger S230918aq is no longer considered to be a candidate of interest. This candidate was initially identified by one or more early-warning analyses by matching partial signal templates to the data. Analysis of additional data up to the putative merger time, with full signal templates, did not make a significant detection, indicating that the initial candidate was likely due to transient noise.
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