TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 41052 SUBJECT: IceCube-250708A: Upper limits from a search for additional neutrino events in IceCube DATE: 25/07/09 18:02:33 GMT FROM: Alicia Mand at IceCube/UW-Madison aemand@wisc.edu
The IceCube Collaboration (http://icecube.wisc.edu/) reports:
IceCube has performed a search [1] for additional track-like muon neutrino events arriving from the direction of IceCube-250708A (https://gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/41039) in a time range of 1000 seconds centered on the alert event time (2025-07-08 13:56:59.540 UTC to 2025-07-08 14:13:39.540 UTC) during which IceCube was collecting good quality data. Excluding the event that prompted the alert, zero track-like events are found within the 90% containment region of IceCube-250708A. We report a p-value of 1.00 in this time window. The IceCube sensitivity to neutrino point sources with an E^-2.5 spectrum (E^2 dN/dE at 1 TeV) within the locations spanned by the 90% spatial containment region of IceCube-250708A is 1.4e-01 GeV cm^-2 in a 1000 second time window. 90% of events IceCube would detect from a source at this declination with an E^-2.5 spectrum have energies in the approximate energy range between 2e+02 GeV and 7e+04 GeV.
A subsequent search was performed including 2 days of data centered on the alert event time (2025-07-07 14:05:19.540 UTC to 2025-07-09 14:05:19.540 UTC). In this case, we report a p-value of 0.02, consistent with no significant excess of track events. The IceCube sensitivity to neutrino point sources with an E^-2.5 spectrum (E^2 dN/dE at 1 TeV) within the locations spanned by the 90% spatial containment region of IceCube-250708A is 1.7e-01 GeV cm^-2 in a 2 day 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@icecube.wisc.edu.
[1] IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi et al., ApJ 910 4 (2021)
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