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GCN Circular 30978

Subject
Fermi-LAT Gamma-ray Observations of IceCube-211023A
Date
2021-10-24T20:50:39Z (3 years ago)
From
Simone Garrappa at DESY <simone.garrappa@desy.de>
S. Garrappa (DESY-Zeuthen), S. Buson (Univ. of Wuerzburg) and R. de 
Menezes (Univ. of Wuerzburg, Univ. of Sao Paulo) on behalf of the 
Fermi-LAT collaboration:

We report an analysis of observations of the vicinity of the high-energy 
IC211023A neutrino event (GCN 30957) with all-sky survey data from the 
Large Area Telescope (LAT), on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space 
Telescope. The IceCube event was detected on 2021-10-23 at 08:31:18.31 
UT (T0) with J2000 position RA = 253.30 (+1.05,-1.08) deg, Decl. = -1.72 
(+1.16, -1.11) deg (90% PSF containment). One cataloged gamma-ray (>100 
MeV) source is located within the 90% IC211023A localization region. 
This is 4FGL J1653.6-0158 (4FGL-DR2, The Fermi-LAT collaboration 2020, 
ApJS, 247, 33), identified as PSR J1653-0158 (Nieder et al. 2020 ApJL 
202, 46). Based on a preliminary analysis of the LAT data over the 
timescales of 1-day and 1-month prior to T0, this object is not 
significantly detected (> 5 sigma).

We searched for intermediate (days to years) timescale emission from a 
new gamma-ray transient source. Preliminary analysis indicates no 
significant (> 5 sigma) new excess emission (> 100 MeV) at the IC211023A 
best-fit position. Assuming a power-law spectrum (photon index = 2.0 
fixed) for a point source at the IC211023A best-fit position, the >100 
MeV flux upper limit (95% confidence) is < 8.8e-10 ph cm^-2 s^-1 for 
~13-years (2008-08-04 to 2021-10-23 UTC), and < 1.6e-8 (< 1.9e-7) ph 
cm^-2 s^-1 for a 1-month (1-day) integration time before T0.

Since Fermi normally operates in an all-sky scanning mode, regular 
monitoring of this source will continue. For these observations the 
Fermi-LAT contact persons are S. Garrappa (simone.garrappa at desy.de) 
and S. Buson (sara.buson at uni-wuerzburg.de).

The Fermi-LAT is a pair conversion telescope designed to cover the 
energy band from 20 MeV to greater than 300 GeV. It is the product of an 
international collaboration between NASA and DOE in the U.S. and many 
scientific institutions across France, Italy, Japan and Sweden.
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