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GCN Circular 37513

Subject

LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S240915b: Updated Sky localization and EM Bright Classification

Date

2024-09-15T03:20:38Z (3 months ago)

From

Aaron Zimmerman at U. of Texas at Austin <aaron.zimmerman@utexas.edu>

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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 S240915b (GCN Circular 37512Loading...
 
 ). Parameter estimation has been performed using Bilby [1] and a new sky map, Bilby.multiorder.fits,0, distributed via GCN Notice, is available for retrieval from the GraceDB event page:

https://gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/S240915b

Based on posterior support from parameter estimation [1], under the assumption that the candidate S240915b is astrophysical in origin, the probability that at least one of the compact objects is consistent with a neutron star mass above one solar mass (HasNS) is <1%. [2] Using the masses and spins inferred from the signal, the probability of matter outside the final compact object (HasRemnant) is <1%. [2] HasRemnant is assumed to be zero when the heavier component mass is below 1 solar mass. Both HasNS and HasRemnant consider the support of several neutron star equations of state for maximum neutron star mass. The probability that either of the binary components lies between 3 and 5 solar masses (HasMassGap) is 2%.

For the Bilby.multiorder.fits,0 sky map, the 90% credible region is well fit by an ellipse with an area of 19 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(07h36m, -49d55m, 3.88d, 1.60d, 23.49d)
Marginalized over the whole sky, the a posteriori luminosity distance estimate is 872 +/- 149 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/ab06fcLoading...
 
  and Morisaki et al. PRD 108, 123040 (2023) doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.108.123040Loading...
 
 
 [2] Chatterjee et al. ApJ 896, 54 (2020) doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab8dbeLoading...