GCN Circular 39198
Subject
LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S250206dm: DDOTI Upper Limit for the Neutrino IceCube Candidate
Date
2025-02-07T10:37:39Z (3 days ago)
From
Rosa L. Becerra at Tor Vergata, Roma <rosa.becerra@roma2.infn.it>
Via
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Rosa L. Becerra (U Rome), Alan M. Watson (UNAM), William H. Lee (UNAM), Camila Angulo Valdez (UNAM), Eleonora Troja (U Rome), Nat Butler (ASU), Simone Dichiara (Penn State University), Tsvetelina Dimitrova (ASU), Alexander Kutyrev (GSFC/UMD), Océlotl López (UNAM), and Margarita Pereyra (UNAM) report:
As part of the optical follow-up campaign for LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S250206dm (LVKC, GCN 39175), the DDOTI/OAN wide-field imager at the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional on Sierra San Pedro Mártir (http://ddoti.astroscu.unam.mx) observed the position RA, Dec = 149.16, -17.94, reported by the IceCube Collaboration as a track-like event spatially and temporally coincident with the gravitational-wave candidate S250206dm (IceCube Collaboration, GCN 39176).
DDOTI covered the complete error region reported for this candidate (angular uncertainty of
0.43 deg, IceCube Collaboration, GCN 39176) beginning at 2025-02-07 07:07 UTC (T+9.7 hours after the event). A total exposure of 18 minutes was obtained in the w filter, reaching a 10-sigma limiting magnitude of w = 19.4.
Comparing our observations with the USNO-B1 and PanSTARRS PS1 DR2 catalogs, we detect no uncatalogued sources within the observed field to our 10-sigma limit.
Observations related to S250206dm are ongoing.
We thank the staff of the Observatorio Astronómico Nacional in San Pedro
Mártir.