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TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  26641
SUBJECT: S200106au and S200106av: Retraction of GW compact binary merger candidates
DATE:    20/01/06 18:57:56 GMT
FROM:    Peter Shawhan at U of Maryland/LSC  <pshawhan@umd.edu>

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration report:

The triggers S200106au and S200106av were caused by chance
coincidences between light scattering episodes in the two LIGO
detectors and are no longer considered to be candidates of interest.