{
  "eventId": "LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S250917aq",
  "bibcode": "2025GCN.41857....1I",
  "submitter": "A. Zegarelli at Ruhr University Bochum <azegarelli@icecube.wisc.edu>",
  "body": "IceCube Collaboration (http://icecube.wisc.edu/) reports:\n\nSearches for track-like muon neutrino events detected by IceCube consistent with the sky \nlocalization of gravitational-wave candidate S250917aq in a time range of 1000 seconds \ncentered on the alert event time (2025-09-17 13:13:34.401 UTC to 2025-09-17 13:30:14.401 UTC) have been performed [1,2]. During this time period IceCube was collecting good quality data. Two hypothesis tests were conducted. The first search is a maximum likelihood analysis which searches for a generic point-like neutrino source coincident with the given GW skymap.  The second uses a Bayesian approach to quantify the joint GW + neutrino event significance, which assumes a binary merger scenario and accounts for known astrophysical priors, such as GW source distance, in the significance estimate [3].\n\nThree track-like events are found in spatial and temporal coincidence with the gravitational-wave \ncandidate S250917aq calculated from the map circulated in the 4-Update notice. This represents an overall p-value of 0.0096 from the generic transient search and an overall p-value of 0.0197 for the Bayesian search.  These p-values measure the consistency of the observed track-like events with the known atmospheric backgrounds for this single map (not trials corrected for multiple GW events). The most probable multi-messenger source direction based on the neutrinos and GW skymap is RA 243.72, Dec -34.23 degrees in the generic transient search.\n\nThe reported p-values can differ due to the estimated distance of the GW candidate. The distance is used as a prior in the Bayesian binary merger search, while it is not taken into account in the generic transient point-like source search. The false alarm rate of these coincidences can be obtained by multiplying the p-values with their corresponding GW trigger rates. Further details are available at https://gcn.nasa.gov/missions/icecube. Additional details \nand updates will be posted at https://roc.icecube.wisc.edu/public/LvkNuTrackSearch/.\n\nProperties of the coincident events are shown below.\n\n| dt(s) | RA(deg)  | Dec(deg) | Angular uncertainty(deg)| p-value(generic transient)| p-value(Bayesian)     |\n|-------|----------|----------|-------------------------|---------------------------|-----------------------|\n| -497.79 |  228.08 |  -34.97    |   0.43\t|  0.0307   | null |\n| -82.26  | 243.67  |  -34.25    |   0.43\t|  0.0096  | 0.0809 |\n| -62.98  | 38.47    | 36.82     |  3.99   | null         |  0.0302 |\n\nwhere:\ndt = Time of track event minus time of GW trigger (sec)\nAngular uncertainty = Angular uncertainty of track event: the radius of a circle      representing 90% CL containment by area.\np-value = the p-value for this specific track event from each search. Event p-values are provided when the per-event p-value is less than 0.1 in either search.\n\nThe IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a cubic-kilometer neutrino detector operating at the \ngeographic South Pole, Antarctica. The IceCube realtime alert point of contact can be \nreached at roc@icecube.wisc.edu\n\n\n[1] M. G. Aartsen et al 2020 ApJL 898 L10\n[2] Abbasi et al. Astrophys.J. 944 (2023) 1, 80\n[3] I. Bartos et al. 2019 Phys. Rev. D 100, 083017\n\n",
  "circularId": 41857,
  "subject": "LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S250917aq: Three counterpart neutrino candidates from IceCube neutrino searches",
  "submittedHow": "web",
  "createdOn": 1758143139453,
  "format": "text/markdown"
}