TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 34075 SUBJECT: LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S230624av: Identification of a GW compact binary merger candidate DATE: 23/06/24 12:01:04 GMT 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 . [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)