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IceCube-Cascade 251107A

GCN Circular 42629

Subject
IceCube-Cascade 251107A: Upper limits from a search for additional neutrino events in IceCube
Date
2025-11-09T19:33:46Z (3 days ago)
From
Yuhua Yao at IceCube/UW-Madison <yyao255@icecube.wisc.edu>
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The IceCube Collaboration (http://icecube.wisc.edu/) reports:

IceCube has performed a search [1] for additional track-like muon neutrino events arriving from the direction of IceCube-Cascade 251107A (https://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/notices_amon_icecube_cascade/141568_42562719.amon) in a time range of 1000 seconds centered on the alert event time (2025-11-07 20:53:25.880 UTC to 2025-11-07 21:10:05.880 UTC) during which IceCube was collecting good quality data. Excluding the event that prompted the alert, zero track-like events are found within the 90% containment region of IceCube-Cascade 251107A. We report a p-value of 1.00 in this time window.  IceCube’s sensitivity to neutrino point sources with an E^-2.5 spectrum, expressed as E^2 dN/dE evaluated at 1 TeV, ranges from 1.2e+01 to 2.5e+01 GeV cm^-2 within the 90% spatial containment region of IceCube-Cascade 251107A in a 1000 second time window. 90% of events IceCube would detect from a source at this declination with an E^-2.5 spectrum have energies in the approximate energy range between 4e+04 GeV and 4e+06 GeV. 

A subsequent search was performed including 2 days of data centered on the alert event time (2025-11-06 21:01:45.880 UTC to 2025-11-08 21:01:45.880 UTC). In this case, we report a p-value of 0.57, consistent with no significant excess of track events. IceCube’s sensitivity to neutrino point sources with an E^-2.5 spectrum, expressed as E^2 dN/dE evaluated at 1 TeV, ranges from 1.2e+01 to 2.7e+01 GeV cm^-2 within the 90% spatial containment region of IceCube-Cascade 251107A in a 2 day time window. 

The 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.

[1] IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi  et al., ApJ 910 4 (2021)


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