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GCN Circular 42337

Subject
LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S251017di: Retraction of GW compact binary merger candidate
Event
LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S251017di
Date
2025-10-17T21:38:45Z (3 days ago)
From
shoki.iwaguchi@ligo.org
Via
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The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration report:

The trigger S251017di 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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