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GCN Circular 38070

Subject
LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S241104a: Retraction of GW compact binary merger candidate
Date
2024-11-04T04:45:14Z (a month ago)
From
Pan Guo at KAGRA <panguocas@gmail.com>
Via
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The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration report:

The trigger S241104a is no longer considered to be a candidate of interest. There were Data Quality issues in L1 with presence of a glitch. The detection pipeline and detector characterization experts recommended a retraction.

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