[vsnet-grb-info 24686] LIGO/Virgo S200116ah: Retraction of GW compact binary merger candidate

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  26785
SUBJECT: LIGO/Virgo S200116ah: Retraction of GW compact binary merger candidate
DATE:    20/01/16 12:28:22 GMT
FROM:    Erik Katsavounidis at MIT  <kats at ligo.mit.edu>

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration report:

The trigger S200116ah is no longer considered to be a candidate of

interest. The candidate is attributed to non-stationary noise in the L1

detector and is not significant without the contribution from L1.