GCN Circular 33560

The IceCube Collaboration (http://icecube.wisc.edu/) reports:


IceCube has performed a search [1] for additional track-like muon neutrino events arriving from the direction of IceCube-230401A (https://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/gcn3/33552.gcn3
Not found
 
 
) in a time range of 1000 seconds centered on the alert event time (2023-04-01 16:05:58.900 UTC to 2023-04-01 16:22:38.900 UTC) during which IceCube was collecting good quality data. Excluding the event that prompted the alert, zero track-like events are found within the 90% containment region of IceCube-230401A. The IceCube sensitivity to neutrino point sources with an E^-2.5 spectrum (E^2 dN/dE at 1 TeV) within the locations spanned by the 90% spatial containment region of IceCube-230401A ranges from 1.4e-01 to 1.5e-01 GeV cm^-2 in a 1000 second time window. 90% of events IceCube would detect from a source at this declination with an E^-2.5 spectrum have energies in the approximate energy range between 3e+02 GeV and 2e+05 GeV.


A subsequent search was performed including 2 days of data centered on the alert event time (2023-03-31 16:14:18.900 UTC to 2023-04-02 16:14:18.900 UTC). In this case, we report a p-value of 0.05, consistent with no significant excess of track events. The IceCube sensitivity to neutrino point sources with an E^-2.5 spectrum (E^2 dN/dE at 1 TeV) within the locations spanned by the 90% spatial containment region of IceCube-230401A is 1.6e-01 GeV cm^-2 in a 2 day time window.


The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a cubic-kilometer neutrino detector operating at the geographic South Pole, Antarctica. The IceCube realtime alert point of contact can be reached at roc@icecube.wisc.edu.


[1] IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi  et al., ApJ 910 4 (2021)