[vsnet-grb-info 24340] LIGO/Virgo S191215w: Upper limits from IceCube neutrino searches

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  26439
SUBJECT: LIGO/Virgo S191215w: Upper limits from IceCube neutrino searches
DATE:    19/12/15 22:51:14 GMT
FROM:    Raamis Hussain at IceCube  <raamis.hussain at icecube.wisc.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
S191215w
 in a time range of 1000 seconds [3] centered on the alert event time
(2019-12-15 22:22:32.333 UTC to 2019-12-15 22:39:12.333 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
S191215w 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 S191215w ranges from 0.031 to 1.080 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


[1] Bartos et al. arXiv:1810.11467 (2018) and Countryman et
al.arXiv:1901.05486 (2019)
[2] PoS(ICRC2019)918 and Braun et al., Astroparticle Physics 29, 299 (2008)
[3] Baret et al., Astroparticle Physics 35, 1 (2011)