TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 38863 SUBJECT: LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S250109bi: Identification of a GW compact binary merger candidate DATE: 25/01/09 08:29:17 GMT FROM: davis@lpccaen.in2p3.fr
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration report:
We identified the compact binary merger candidate S250109bi during real-time processing of data from LIGO Hanford Observatory (H1) and Virgo Observatory (V1) at 2025-01-09 07:45:52.379 UTC (GPS time: 1420443970.379). The candidate was found by the GstLAL [1] analysis pipeline.
S250109bi is an event of interest because its false alarm rate, as estimated by the online analysis, is 2e-08 Hz, or about one in 1 year, 6 months. The event's properties can be found at this URL:
https://gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/S250109bi
After parameter estimation by RapidPE-RIFT [2], the classification of the GW signal, in order of descending probability, is BBH (98%), Terrestrial (2%), NSBH (<1%), or BNS (<1%).
Assuming the candidate is astrophysical in origin, the probability that the lighter compact object is consistent with a neutron star mass (HasNS) is <1%. [3] Using the masses and spins inferred from the signal, the probability of matter outside the final compact object (HasRemnant) is <1%. [3] Both HasNS and HasRemnant consider the support of several neutron star equations of state. The probability that either of the binary components lies between 3 and 5 solar masses (HasMassGap) is <1%.
Two sky maps are available at this time and can be retrieved from the GraceDB event page: * bayestar.multiorder.fits,1, an initial localization generated by BAYESTAR [4], distributed via GCN notice about 28 seconds after the candidate event time. * bayestar.multiorder.fits,2, an initial localization generated by BAYESTAR [4], distributed via GCN notice about 5 minutes after the candidate event time.
The preferred sky map at this time is bayestar.multiorder.fits,2. For the bayestar.multiorder.fits,2 sky map, the 90% credible region is 8841 deg2. Marginalized over the whole sky, the a posteriori luminosity distance estimate is 1246 +/- 386 Mpc (a posteriori mean +/- standard deviation).
For further information about analysis methodology and the contents of this alert, refer to the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA Public Alerts User Guide https://emfollow.docs.ligo.org/.
[1] Tsukada et al. PRD 108, 043004 (2023) doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.108.043004 and Ewing et al. (2023) arXiv:2305.05625 [2] Rose et al. (2022) arXiv:2201.05263 and Pankow et al. PRD 92, 023002 (2015) doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.92.023002 [3] Chatterjee et al. ApJ 896, 54 (2020) doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab8dbe [4] Singer & Price PRD 93, 024013 (2016) doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.93.024013
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