GCN Circular 38200
Subject
IceCube-241113A - IceCube observation of a high-energy neutrino candidate track-like event
Date
2024-11-13T14:38:33Z (2 months ago)
Edited On
2024-11-13T16:55:01Z (2 months ago)
From
A. Zegarelli at Ruhr University Bochum <azegarelli@icecube.wisc.edu>
Edited By
Leo P. Singer at NASA/GSFC <leo.p.singer@nasa.gov> on behalf of A. Zegarelli at Ruhr University Bochum <azegarelli@icecube.wisc.edu>
Via
Web form
The IceCube Collaboration (http://icecube.wisc.edu/) reports:
On 2024-11-13 00:22:20.68 UT IceCube detected a track-like event with a moderate probability of being of astrophysical origin. The event was selected by the ICECUBE_Astrotrack_Bronze alert stream. The average astrophysical neutrino purity for Gold alerts is 30%. This alert has an estimated false alarm rate of 3.8708 events per year due to atmospheric backgrounds. The IceCube detector was in a normal operating state at the time of detection.
After the initial automated alert (https://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/notices_amon_g_b/140078_30891383.amon), more sophisticated reconstruction algorithms have been applied offline, with the direction refined to:
Date: 2024-11-13
Time: 00:22:20.68 UT
RA: 196.17 (+0.60, -0.60 deg 90% PSF containment) J2000
Dec: 8.57 (+0.77, -0.83 deg 90% PSF containment) J2000
We encourage follow-up by ground and space-based instruments to help identify a possible astrophysical source for the candidate neutrino.
No Fermi 4FGL or 3FHL catalog sources are in the 90% uncertainty region. 4FGL J1301.6+0834 (4FGL catalog source) at RA = 195.41 deg and Dec = 8.57 deg is the closest known source, located just outside the 90% uncertainty region (0.75 deg away from the best-fit position).
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