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GCN Circular 37559

Subject

LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S240919bn: Updated Sky localization

Date

2024-09-19T16:32:43Z (6 months ago)

From

Colm Talbot at University of Chicago <talbotcolm@gmail.com>

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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 S240919bn (GCN Circular 37552Loading...
 
 ). 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/S240919bn

For the Bilby.multiorder.fits,0 sky map, the 90% credible region is well fit by an ellipse with an area of 16 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(03h35m, +36d30m, 2.83d, 1.79d, 75.95d)
Marginalized over the whole sky, the a posteriori luminosity distance estimate is 1711 +/- 490 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...