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GCN Circular 39411

Subject
LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S250221gb: Retraction of GW compact binary merger candidate
Date
2025-02-21T18:19:53Z (18 hours ago)
From
Isaac McMahon at University of Zurich <isaac.mcmahon@ligo.org>
Via
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The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration report:

The trigger S250221gb is no longer considered to be a candidate of interest: there was a transient noise glitch in the LIGO Hanford detector.
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