TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 33914 SUBJECT: LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S230605o: Identification of a GW compact binary merger candidate DATE: 23/06/05 07:20:47 GMT FROM: lucia.papalini@phd.unipi.it The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration report: We identified the compact binary merger candidate S230605o during real-time processing of data from LIGO Hanford Observatory (H1) and LIGO Livingston Observatory (L1) at 2023-06-05 06:53:43.494 UTC (GPS time: 1369983241.494). The candidate was found by the MBTA [1], GstLAL [2], PyCBC Live [3], and SPIIR [4] analysis pipelines. S230605o is an event of interest because its false alarm rate, as estimated by the online analysis, is 4.5e-09 Hz, or about one in 7 years. The event's properties can be found at this URL: https://gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/S230605o The classification of the GW signal, in order of descending probability, is BBH (99%), Terrestrial (1%), BNS (<1%), or NSBH (<1%). Assuming the candidate is astrophysical in origin, the probability that the lighter compact object is consistent with a neutron star mass (HasNS) is <1%. [5] Using the masses and spins inferred from the signal, the probability of matter outside the final compact object (HasRemnant) is <1%. [5] Both HasNS and HasRemnant consider the support of several neutron star equations of state. The probability that any one of the binary components lie between 3 to 5 solar mass (HasMassgap) is <1%. Two sky maps are available at this time and can be retrieved from the GraceDB event page: * bayestar.multiorder.fits,0, an initial localization generated by BAYESTAR [6], distributed via GCN notice about 22 seconds after the candidate event time. * bayestar.multiorder.fits,1, an initial localization generated by BAYESTAR [6], distributed via GCN notice about 4 minutes after the candidate event time. The preferred sky map at this time is bayestar.multiorder.fits,1. For the bayestar.multiorder.fits,1 sky map, the 90% credible region is 1370 deg2. Marginalized over the whole sky, the a posteriori luminosity distance estimate is 1096 +/- 333 Mpc (a posteriori mean +/- standard deviation). For further information about analysis methodology and the contents of this alert, refer to the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA Public Alerts User Guide . [1] Aubin et al. CQG 38, 095004 (2021) [2] Tsukada et al. arXiv:2305.06286 (2023) and Ewing et al. arXiv:2305.05625 (2023) [3] Dal Canton et al. ApJ 923, 254 (2021) [4] Chu et al. PRD 105, 024023 (2022) [5] Chatterjee et al. ApJ 896, 54 (2020) [6] Singer & Price PRD 93, 024013 (2016)