GCN Circular 30999
Subject
IceCube-211023A: Upper limits from a search for additional neutrino events in IceCube
Date
2021-10-25T20:00:34Z (3 years ago)
From
Alex Pizzuto at ICECUBE/U of Wisconsin <pizzuto@wisc.edu>
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-211023A (https://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/gcn3/30957.gcn3) in a time range of 1000 seconds centered on the alert event time (2021-10-23 08:22:58.310 UTC to 2021-10-23 08:39:38.310 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-211023A.
The IceCube sensitivity to neutrino point sources with an E^-2.5 spectrum (E^2 dN/dE at 1 TeV) within the locations spanned by the 90% spatial containment region of IceCube-211023A is 1.5e-01 GeV cm^-2 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 range between 3e+02 GeV and 2e+05 GeV.
A subsequent search was performed including 2 days of data centered on the alert
event time (2021-10-22 08:31:18.310 UTC to 2021-10-24 08:31:18.310 UTC). In this case, we report a p-value of 0.09, consistent with no significant excess of track events. The IceCube sensitivity to neutrino point sources with an E^-2.5 spectrum (E^2 dN/dE at 1 TeV) within the locations spanned by the 90% spatial containment region of IceCube-211023A is 1.6e-01 GeV cm^-2 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<mailto:roc@icecube.wisc.edu>.
[1] IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi et al., ApJ 910 4 (2021)