LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S230806ak

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the
KAGRA Collaboration report:

We identified the compact binary merger candidate S230806ak during
real-time processing of data from LIGO Hanford Observatory (H1) and
LIGO Livingston Observatory (L1) at 2023-08-06 20:40:41.938 UTC (GPS
time: 1375389659.938). The candidate was found by the CWB [1], GstLAL
[2], MBTA [3], PyCBC Live [4], and SPIIR [5] analysis pipelines.

S230806ak is an event of interest because its false alarm rate, as
estimated by the online analysis, is 3e-09 Hz, or about one in 10
years. The event's properties can be found at this URL:

https://gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/S230806ak

The classification of the GW signal, in order of descending
probability, is BBH (>99%), Terrestrial (<1%), NSBH (<1%), or BNS (<1%).

Assuming the candidate is astrophysical in origin, the probability
that the lighter compact object is consistent with a neutron star mass
(HasNS) is <1%. [6] Using the masses and spins inferred from the
signal, the probability of matter outside the final compact object
(HasRemnant) is <1%. [6] Both HasNS and HasRemnant consider the
support of several neutron star equations of state. The probability
that either of the binary components lies between 3 and 5 solar masses
(HasMassgap) is 3%.

Two sky maps are available at this time and can be retrieved from the
GraceDB event page:
 * bayestar.multiorder.fits,1, an initial localization generated by
BAYESTAR [7], distributed via GCN notice about 35 seconds after the
candidate event time.
 * bayestar.multiorder.fits,2, an initial localization generated by
BAYESTAR [7], distributed via GCN notice about 5 minutes after the
candidate event time.

The preferred sky map at this time is bayestar.multiorder.fits,2. For
the bayestar.multiorder.fits,2 sky map, the 90% credible region is
3749 deg2. Marginalized over the whole sky, the a posteriori
luminosity distance estimate is 4578 +/- 1473 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/userguide/.

 [1] Klimenko et al. PRD 93, 042004 (2016)
 [2] Tsukada et al. arXiv:2305.06286
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  (2023) and Ewing et al.
arXiv:2305.05625
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  (2023)
 [3] Aubin et al. CQG 38, 095004 (2021)
 [4] Dal Canton et al. ApJ 923, 254 (2021)
 [5] Chu et al. PRD 105, 024023 (2022)
 [6] Chatterjee et al. ApJ 896, 54 (2020)
 [7] Singer & Price PRD 93, 024013 (2016)

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration report:

We have conducted further analysis of the LIGO Hanford Observatory (H1) and LIGO Livingston Observatory (L1) data around the time of the compact binary merger (CBC) candidate S230806ak (GCN Circular 34352
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 ). 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/S230806ak

Based on posterior support from parameter estimation [1], under the assumption that the candidate S230806ak is astrophysical in origin, the probability that the lighter compact object is consistent with a neutron star mass (HasNS) is <1%. [2] Using the masses and spins inferred from the signal, the probability of matter outside the final compact object (HasRemnant) is <1%. [2] Both HasNS and HasRemnant consider the support of several neutron star equations of state. The probability that either of the binary components lies between 3 and 5 solar masses (HasMassgap) is <1%.

For the Bilby.offline0.multiorder.fits,0 sky map, the 90% credible region is 3715 deg2. Marginalized over the whole sky, the a posteriori luminosity distance estimate is 5423 +/- 1862 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/userguide/.


 [1] Ashton et al. ApJS 241, 27 (2019)
 [2] Chatterjee et al. ApJ 896, 54 (2020)