[vsnet-grb-info 22898] LIGO/Virgo S190706ai: Upper limits from IceCube neutrino searches

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  24997
SUBJECT: LIGO/Virgo S190706ai: Upper limits from IceCube neutrino searches
DATE:    19/07/06 23:00:50 GMT
FROM:    Marcos Santander at U. Alabama/IceCube  <jmsantander at ua.edu>

IceCube Collaboration (http://icecube.wisc.edu/) reports:

Searches [1,2] for track-like muon neutrino events detected by IceCube
consistent with the sky localization of gravitational-wave candidate S190706ai
 in a time range of 1000 seconds [3] centered on the alert event time
(2019-07-06 22:18:21.345 UTC to 2019-07-06 22:35:01.345 UTC) have been performed.  During this time
period IceCube was collecting good quality data.  No significant track-like
events are found in spatial coincidence of S190706ai calculated from the map
circulated in the 1-Preliminary notice.

IceCube's sensitivity assuming an E^-2 spectrum (E^2 dN/dE) to neutrino
point sources within the locations spanned by the 90% spatial  containment
of S190706ai ranges from  0.035 to 0.881 GeV cm^-2 in a 1000 second
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 at icecube.wisc.edu<mailto:roc at icecube.wisc.edu>


[1] Bartos et al. arXiv:1810.11467 (2018) and Countryman et al.arXiv:1901.05486 (2019)
[2] Braun et al., Astroparticle Physics 29, 299 (2008)
[3] Baret et al., Astroparticle Physics 35, 1 (2011)