GCN Circular 34075
Subject
LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S230624av: Identification of a GW compact binary merger candidate
Date
2023-06-24T12:01:04Z (a year ago)
From
miquel.miravet@uv.es
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the
KAGRA Collaboration report:
We identified the compact binary merger candidate S230624av during
real-time processing of data from LIGO Hanford Observatory (H1) and
LIGO Livingston Observatory (L1) at 2023-06-24 11:31:03.770 UTC (GPS
time: 1371641481.770). The candidate was found by the CWB [1], MBTA
[2], GstLAL [3], and SPIIR [4] analysis pipelines.
S230624av is an event of interest because its false alarm rate, as
estimated by the online analysis, is 1.3e-08 Hz, or about one in 2
years. The event's properties can be found at this URL:
https://gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/S230624av
The classification of the GW signal, in order of descending
probability, is BBH (95%), Terrestrial (5%), 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 31 seconds after the
candidate event time.
* bayestar.multiorder.fits,1, an initial localization generated by
BAYESTAR [6], distributed via GCN notice about 5 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
1718 deg2. Marginalized over the whole sky, the a posteriori
luminosity distance estimate is 2556 +/- 787 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
<https://emfollow.docs.ligo.org/userguide/>.
[1] Klimenko et al. PRD 93, 042004 (2016)
[2] Aubin et al. CQG 38, 095004 (2021)
[3] Tsukada et al. arXiv:2305.06286 (2023) and Ewing et al.
arXiv:2305.05625 (2023)
[4] Chu et al. PRD 105, 024023 (2022)
[5] Chatterjee et al. ApJ 896, 54 (2020)
[6] Singer & Price PRD 93, 024013 (2016)