[vsnet-grb-info 26423] IceCube-200926A: Upper limits from a search for additional neutrino events in IceCube
GCN Circulars
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Tue Sep 29 01:03:27 JST 2020
TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER: 28523
SUBJECT: IceCube-200926A: Upper limits from a search for additional neutrino events in IceCube
DATE: 20/09/28 16:02:22 GMT
FROM: Alex Pizzuto at ICECUBE/U of Wisconsin <pizzuto at wisc.edu>
The IceCube Collaboration (http://icecube.wisc.edu/) reports:
IceCube has performed a search for additional track-like muon neutrino events arriving
from the direction of IceCube-200926A (https://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/gcn3/28504.gcn3) in a time
range of 2 days centered on the alert event time (2020-09-25 07:54:11.62 UTC to 2020-09-27 07:54:11.62 UTC) during which IceCube was collecting good quality data. Excluding the
event that prompted the alert, zero additional track-like events are found in spatial coincidence
with the 90% containment region of IceCube-200926A. We accordingly derive a time-integrated muon-neutrino flux upper limit at the alert position of E^2 dN/ dE = 3.6 x 10^-5 TeV cm^-2 at 90% CL, under the assumption of an E^-2 power law. 90% of events IceCube would detect from a source at this declination with an E^-2 spectrum are approximately between 2 TeV and 7 PeV.
A subsequent search was performed to include the month of data prior to the alert event (2020-08-27 07:54:11.62 UTC to 2020-09-27 07:54:11.62 UTC). In this case, we report a p-value of 1.0, consistent with no significant excess of track-like events, and a corresponding time-integrated muon-neutrino flux upper limit assuming an E^-2 spectrum (E^2 dN/dE) of
4.3 x 10^-5 TeV cm^-2 at the 90% CL.
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 at icecube.wisc.edu<mailto:roc at icecube.wisc.edu>.
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