TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  38664
SUBJECT: IceCube-241224A - IceCube observation of a high-energy neutrino candidate track-like event
DATE:    24/12/24 12:03:27 GMT
FROM:    A. Zegarelli at Ruhr University Bochum <azegarelli@icecube.wisc.edu>

The IceCube Collaboration (http://icecube.wisc.edu/) reports:

On 2024-12-24 07:10:04.35 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 Bronze alerts is 30%. This alert has an estimated false alarm rate of 3.816 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/140284_303893.amon), more sophisticated reconstruction algorithms have been applied offline, with the direction refined to:

Date: 2024-12-24
Time: 07:10:04.35 UT
RA: 184.97 (+0.59, -0.52 deg 90% PSF containment) J2000
Dec: 2.76 (+0.67, -0.67 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 source are in the 90% uncertainty region.
The nearest gamma-ray source in either catalog is 4FGL J1225.0+0330 at RA: 186.25 deg, Dec: 3.51 deg 1.46 deg away from the best-fit event 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