GCN Circular 39238
Subject
LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S250118az: Updated Sky localization
Date
2025-02-08T16:27:45Z (2 days ago)
From
Will Farr <will.farr@stonybrook.edu>
Via
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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 S250118az (GCN Circular 38973). 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/S250118az
For the Bilby.offline0.multiorder.fits,0 sky map, the 90% credible region is 601 deg2. Marginalized over the whole sky, the a posteriori luminosity distance estimate is 918 +/- 401 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/ab06fc and Morisaki et al. (2023) arXiv:2307.13380