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  "body": "The IceCube Collaboration (http://icecube.wisc.edu/) reports:\n\nOn 2025-03-09 at 07:36:04.75 UT IceCube detected a track-like event with a high probability of being of astrophysical origin. The event was selected by the ICECUBE_Astrotrack_GOLD alert stream. The average astrophysical neutrino purity for Gold alerts is 50%. This alert has an estimated false alarm rate of 0.1759 events per year due to atmospheric backgrounds. The IceCube detector was in a normal operating state at the time of detection.\n\nAfter the initial automated alert (https://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/notices_amon_g_b/140626_1288692.amon), more sophisticated reconstruction algorithms have been applied offline, with the direction refined to:\n\nDate: 2025-03-09\nTime:  07:36:04.75 UT\nRA: 211.07 (+0.31 -0.30 deg  90% PSF containment) J2000\nDec: -10.73 (+0.26 -0.30 deg 90% PSF containment) J2000\n\nThe inferred neutrino energy of this alert is ~4 PeV, making it the fourth-highest energy known detection by IceCube over the past decade.\n\nThe alert coincides with the Fermi GRB250309B (Fermi-GBM trigger 763198715 at 07:38:30.66 on 09 March 2025; https://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/other/763198715.fermi) with a time delay of 145.91 seconds relative to the GRB trigger time. The angular distance to the most updated reconstruction released by the GBM team, which has a 1σ statistical error of 1.60 deg, is 0.77 degrees. An alternative algorithm results in a shifted direction (https://gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/39629) with an angular distance from the best fit neutrino direction of 3.18 degrees and has a 1σ statistical error of 1.3 degree and a systematic error of 1 degree.\n\nWe strongly encourage follow-up observations of the neutrino region of interest and the uncertainty region of GRB250309B.\n\nNo known gamma-ray sources listed in the Fermi 4FGL-DR4 or 3FHL catalogs are located within the 90% uncertainty region of the event.\n\nThe 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\n",
  "circularId": 39631,
  "createdOn": 1741520908905,
  "submittedHow": "web",
  "subject": " IceCube-250309A - IceCube observation of a high-energy neutrino candidate track-like event",
  "submitter": "A. Zegarelli at Ruhr University Bochum <azegarelli@icecube.wisc.edu>",
  "format": "text/plain",
  "bibcode": "2025GCN.39631....1I",
  "eventId": "IceCube-250309A"
}