Back

GCN Circular 36591

Subject

LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S240530a: Updated Sky localization

Date

2024-06-01T11:47:06Z (25 days ago)

From

carl.haster@unlv.edu

Via

Web form

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration report:

We have conducted further analysis of the LIGO Hanford Observatory (H1), LIGO Livingston Observatory (L1), and Virgo Observatory (V1) data around the time of the compact binary merger (CBC) candidate S240530a (GCN Circular 36572). Parameter estimation has been performed using Bilby [1] and a new sky map, Bilby.offline0.multiorder.fits,0, distributed via GCN Notice, is available for retrieval from the GraceDB event page:

https://gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/S240530a

For the Bilby.offline0.multiorder.fits,0 sky map, the 90% credible region is well fit by an ellipse with an area of 207 deg2 described by the following DS9 region (right ascension, declination, semi-major axis, semi-minor axis, position angle of the semi-minor axis):
   icrs; ellipse(21h34m, +05d16m, 21.91d, 3.03d, 64.85d)
Marginalized over the whole sky, the a posteriori luminosity distance estimate is 1066 +/- 226 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/.

 [1] Ashton et al. ApJS 241, 27 (2019) doi:10.3847/1538-4365/ab06fcNot found
 
 
 and Morisaki et al. (2023) arXiv:2307.13380Not found