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GCN Circular 33850

Subject
LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S230522a: 2 counterpart neutrino candidates from IceCube neutrino searches
Date
2023-05-22T12:26:35Z (17 days ago)
From
Jessie Thwaites at IceCube/U Wisc-Madison <thwaites@wisc.edu>
IceCube Collaboration (http://icecube.wisc.edu/) reports: A search for track-like muon neutrino events detected by IceCube consistent with the sky localization of gravitational-wave candidate S230522a in a time range of 1000 seconds centered on the alert event time (2023-05-22 09:29:45.000 UTC to 2023-05-22 09:46:25.000 UTC) have been performed [1,2]. During this time period IceCube was collecting good quality data. The search is a maximum likelihood analysis which searches for a generic point-like neutrino source coincident with the given GW skymap. 2 track-like event(s) are found in spatial and temporal coincidence with the gravitational-wave candidate S230522a calculated from the map circulated in the 2-Preliminary notice. This represents an overall p-value of 0.04 (1.8 sigma). These p-values measure the consistency of the observed track-like events with the known atmospheric backgrounds for this single map (not trials corrected for multiple GW events). The most probable multi-messenger source direction based on the neutrinos and GW skymap is RA 78.93, dec -37.54 degrees. The false alarm rate of these coincidences can be obtained by multiplying the p-values with their corresponding GW trigger rates. Properties of the coincident events are shown below. dt ra dec Angular Uncertainty(deg) p-value(generic transient) p-value(Bayesian) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -152.13 78.98 -37.59 0.43 0.04 n/a 73.08 127.79 -8.33 0.43 0.09 n/a where: dt = Time of track event minus time of GW trigger (sec) Angular uncertainty = Angular uncertainty of track event: the radius of a circle representing 90\% CL containment by area. p-value = the p-value for this specific track event from each search. 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] M. G. Aartsen et al 2020 ApJL 898 L10 [2] Abbasi et al. Astrophys.J. 944 (2023) 1, 80
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