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GCN Circular 41124

Subject
LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S250720j: Retraction of GW compact binary merger candidate
Event
LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S250720j
Date
2025-07-20T03:09:16Z (7 months ago)
From
Sourav Das at IUCAA <sourav.das@iucaa.in>
Via
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The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration report:

The trigger S250720j is no longer considered to be a candidate of interest. The significance arose from a coincidence with a Fermi GRB trigger. Further analysis by Fermi showed that the event was not a GRB [1]. 

[1] R. Hamburg, et al., GCN Circ. 41123 (https://gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/41123)
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