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GCN Circular 33876

Subject
IceCube-230524A: Upper limits from a search for additional neutrino events in IceCube
Date
2023-05-25T13:54:12Z (14 days ago)
From
Aswathi Balagopal V. at UW-Madison/IceCube <abalagopalv@icecube.wisc.edu>
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-230524A (https://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/gcn3/0.gcn3) in a time range of 1000 seconds centered on the alert event time (2023-05-24 11:01:16.240 UTC to 2023-05-24 11:17:56.240 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-230524A. 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-230524A 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 (2023-05-23 11:09:36.240 UTC to 2023-05-25 11:09:36.240 UTC). In this case, we report a p-value of 1.00, 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-230524A 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)
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