TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 38670 SUBJECT: LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S241225v: Identification of a GW compact binary merger candidate DATE: 24/12/25 09:04:17 GMT FROM: Guido Alex Iandolo at Maastricht University g.iandolo@maastrichtuniversity.nl
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration report:
We identified the compact binary merger candidate S241225v during real-time processing of data from LIGO Hanford Observatory (H1) and LIGO Livingston Observatory (L1) at 2024-12-25 08:28:15.653 UTC (GPS time: 1419150513.653). The candidate was found by the CWB [1], GstLAL [2], MBTA [3], MLy [4], PyCBC Live [5], and SPIIR [6] analysis pipelines.
S241225v is an event of interest because its false alarm rate, as estimated by the online analysis, is 2.2e-21 Hz, or about one in 1e13 years. The event's properties can be found at this URL:
https://gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/S241225v
After parameter estimation by RapidPE-RIFT [7], the classification of the GW signal, in order of descending probability, is BBH (>99%), Terrestrial (<1%), 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%. [8] Using the masses and spins inferred from the signal, the probability of matter outside the final compact object (HasRemnant) is <1%. [8] 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,0, an initial localization generated by BAYESTAR [9], distributed via GCN notice about 29 seconds after the candidate event time. * bayestar.multiorder.fits,1, an initial localization generated by BAYESTAR [9], distributed via GCN notice about 5 minutes after the candidate event time.
The preferred sky map at this time is bayestar.multiorder.fits,1. For the bayestar.multiorder.fits,1 sky map, the 90% credible region is 923 deg2. Marginalized over the whole sky, the a posteriori luminosity distance estimate is 2225 +/- 594 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/.
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