GCN Circular 26307
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S191129u : no neutrino counterpart candidate in ANTARES search
Date
2019-11-29T15:28:30Z (4 years ago)
From
Damien Dornic at CPPM,France <dornic@cppm.in2p3.fr>
M. Ageron (CPPM/CNRS), B. Baret (APC/CNRS), A. Coleiro (APC/Universite de Paris), M. Colomer (APC/Universite de Paris), D. Dornic (CPPM/CNRS), A. Kouchner (APC/Universite de Paris), T. Pradier (IPHC/Universite de Strasbourg) report on behalf of the ANTARES Collaboration:
Using on-line data from the ANTARES detector, we have performed a follow-up analysis of the
recently reported LIGO/Virgo S191129u event using the 90% contour of the Initial bayestar probability
map provided by the GW interferometers (GCN#26303 <https://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/gcn3/26303.gcn3>). The ANTARES visibility at the time of the
alert, together with the 50% and 90% contours of the probability map are shown at http://antares.in2p3.fr/GW/S191129u_Initial.png <http://antares.in2p3.fr/GW/S191129u_Initial.png>.
Considering the location probability provided by the LIGO/Virgo collaborations, there is a
51.6% chance that the GW emitter was in the ANTARES **upgoing** field of view at the time of
the alert.
No up-going muon neutrino candidate events were recorded in the ANTARES sky during a
+/-500s time-window centered on the time 2019-11-29 13:40:29 and in the 90% contour of the S191129u
event. The expected number of atmospheric background events in the region visible by ANTARES is
4.78e-04 in the +/- 500s time window. An extended search during +/- 1 hour gives no
up-going muon neutrino coincidence. The expected number of atmospheric background events in the
region visible by ANTARES is 3.44e-03 in this larger time window.
ANTARES is the largest undersea neutrino detector, installed in the Mediterranean Sea, and it is
primarily sensitive to neutrinos in the TeV-PeV energy range. At 10 TeV, the median angular
resolution for muon neutrinos is about 0.5 degrees. In the range 1-100 TeV ANTARES has a
competitive sensitivity to this position in the sky.
