[vsnet-grb-info 22825] LIGO/Virgo S190630ag: No neutrino counterpart candidates in ANTARES search

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  24924
SUBJECT: LIGO/Virgo S190630ag: No neutrino counterpart candidates in ANTARES search 
DATE:    19/06/30 20:43:39 GMT
FROM:    Alexis Coleiro at APC/U. Paris Diderot  <coleiro at apc.in2p3.fr>

M. Ageron (CPPM/CNRS), B. Baret (APC/CNRS), A. Coleiro (APC/Universite Paris Diderot), M. Colomer (APC/Universite Paris Diderot)), D. Dornic (CPPM/CNRS), A. Kouchner (APC/Universite Paris Diderot), T. Pradier (IPHC/Universite de Strasbourg) report on behalf of the ANTARES Collaboration:
Using on-line data from the ANTARES detector, we have performed a follow-up analysis of the recently reported LIGO/Virgo S190630ag event using the 90% contour of the bayestar probability map provided by the GW interferometers (GCN#24922). The ANTARES visibility at the time of the alert, together with the 50% and 90% contours of the probability map are shown at http://antares.in2p3.fr/GW/S190630ag.png <http://antares.in2p3.fr/GW/S190630ag.png>. Considering the location probability provided by the LIGO/Virgo collaborations, there is a 68.6% chance that the GW emitter was in the ANTARES **upgoing** field of view at the time of the alert.

No up-going muon neutrino candidate events were recorded in the ANTARES sky during a +/-500s time-window centered on the time 2019-06-30 18:52:05 and in the 90% contour of the S190630ag event. The expected number of atmospheric background events in the region visible by ANTARES is 1.25e-03 in the +/- 500s time window. An extended search during +/- 1 hour gives no up-going muon neutrino coincidence. The expected number of atmospheric background events in the region visible by ANTARES is 9.04e-03 in this larger time window.

ANTARES is the largest undersea neutrino detector, installed in the Mediterranean Sea, and it is primarily sensitive to neutrinos in the TeV-PeV  energy range. At 10 TeV, the median angular resolution for muon neutrinos is about 0.5 degrees. In the range 1-100 TeV ANTARES has a competitive sensitivity to this position in the sky.