GCN Circular 42026
Subject
LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S250929c: Updated Sky localization
Date
2025-09-29T14:29:17Z (3 days ago)
From
Aditya Vijaykumar <aditya.vijaykumar@ligo.org>
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 S250929c (GCN Circular 42023). Parameter estimation has been performed using Bilby [1] and a new sky map, Bilby.multiorder.fits,0, distributed via GCN and SCiMMA notices, is available for retrieval from the GraceDB event page:
https://gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/S250929c
For the Bilby.multiorder.fits,0 sky map, the 90% credible region is 1828 deg2. Marginalized over the whole sky, the a posteriori luminosity distance estimate is 3796 +/- 1511 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. PRD 108, 123040 (2023) doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.108.123040