TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  34821
SUBJECT: IceCube-231014A: Upper limits from a search for additional neutrino events in IceCube
DATE:    23/10/16 17:12:25 GMT
FROM:    Jessie Thwaites at IceCube/U Wisc-Madison <thwaites@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-231014A (https://gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/34817) in a time range of 1000 seconds centered on the alert event time (2023-10-14 21:51:46.260 UTC to 2023-10-14 22:08:26.260 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-231014A.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-231014A 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 (2023-10-13 22:00:06.260 UTC to 2023-10-15 22:00:06.260 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-231014A 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)