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GCN Circular 37779

Subject

LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S241009em: Updated Sky localization

Date

2024-10-12T09:03:38Z (a month ago)

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carl.haster@unlv.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 S241009em (GCN Circular 37750Not found
 
 
). 
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/S241009em

For the Bilby.offline0.multiorder.fits,0 sky map, the 90% credible region is well fit by an ellipse with an area of 25 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(23h35m, +67d02m, 4.00d, 2.02d, 133.62d)
Marginalized over the whole sky, the a posteriori luminosity distance estimate is 2782 +/- 755 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. PRD 108, 123040 (2023) doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.108.123040Not found