[vsnet-grb-info 24352] IceCube-191215A: Upper limits from a search for additional neutrino events in IceCube

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  26451
SUBJECT: IceCube-191215A: Upper limits from a search for additional neutrino events in IceCube
DATE:    19/12/16 16:02:47 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-191215A (https://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/gcn3/26435.gcn3) in a time
range of 2 days centered on the alert event time (2019-12-14 11:09:57.63 UTC to 2019-12-16 11:09:57.63 UTC) during which IceCube was collecting good quality data. Excluding the
event that prompted the alert, three additional track-like events are found in spatial coincidence
with the 90% containment region of IceCube-191215A. We find that these data are consistent with atmospheric background expectations, with a p-value of 0.015. We accordingly derive a time-integrated muon-neutrino flux upper limit at the alert position of E^2 dN/ dE = 1.08 x 10^-4 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 1 TeV and 200 TeV.

A subsequent search was performed to include the month of data prior to the alert event (2019-11-15 11:09:57.63 UTC to 2019-12-16 11:09:57.63 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
 1.36 x 10^-4 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>.