TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 39260 SUBJECT: IceCube-250207A: Upper limits from a search for additional neutrino events in IceCube DATE: 25/02/09 22:02:46 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-250207A (https://gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/39203) in a time range of 1000 seconds centered on the alert event time (2025-02-07 01:59:35.270 UTC to 2025-02-07 02:16:15.270 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-250207A.
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-250207A 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 9e+04 GeV.
A subsequent search was performed including 2 days of data centered on the alert event time (2025-02-06 02:07:55.270 UTC to 2025-02-08 02:07:55.270 UTC). In this case, we report a p-value of 0.20, 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-250207A 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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