GCN Circular 23876
Subject
Retraction of IceCube GCN/AMON NOTICE 36142391_132143
Date
2019-02-05T22:08:53Z (6 years ago)
From
Erik Blaufuss at U. Maryland/IceCube <blaufuss@umd.edu>
The IceCube Collaboration (http://icecube.wisc.edu/) reports:
On 2019-02-05 at 21:21:44 UT IceCube issued an alert
(https://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/notices_amon/36142391_132143.amon)
reporting the detection of an event with a high chance of being of
astrophysical origin. Upon further examination by the IceCube
collaboration, the event was found to clearly *not* be of astrophysical
origin.
This event was a rare case of near-in-time coincident events allowing a
clear background event to pass the contained event selections.
We apologize for any confusion this may have caused.
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