TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 34785 SUBJECT: LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S231001aq: Identification of a GW compact binary merger candidate DATE: 23/10/01 18:08:24 GMT FROM: sushant.sharma-chaudhary@ligo.org

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration report:

We identified the compact binary merger candidate S231001aq during real-time processing of data from LIGO Hanford Observatory (H1) and LIGO Livingston Observatory (L1) at 2023-10-01 14:02:20.720 UTC (GPS time: 1380204158.720). The candidate was found by the CWB [1], GstLAL [2], MBTA [3], oLIB [4], PyCBC Live [5], and SPIIR [6] analysis pipelines.

S231001aq is an event of interest because its false alarm rate, as estimated by the online analysis, is 5e-09 Hz, or about one in 6 years. The event's properties can be found at this URL:

https://gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/S231001aq

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%. [7] Using the masses and spins inferred from the signal, the probability of matter outside the final compact object (HasRemnant) is <1%. [7] 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 [8], distributed via GCN notice about 31 seconds after the candidate event time. * bayestar.multiorder.fits,2, an initial localization generated by BAYESTAR [8], 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 4091 deg2. Marginalized over the whole sky, the a posteriori luminosity distance estimate is 1569 +/- 465 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/userguide/.

[1] Klimenko et al. PRD 93, 042004 (2016) [2] Tsukada et al. arXiv:2305.06286 (2023) and Ewing et al. arXiv:2305.05625 (2023) [3] Aubin et al. CQG 38, 095004 (2021) [4] Lynch et al. PRD 95, 104046 (2017) [5] Dal Canton et al. ApJ 923, 254 (2021) [6] Chu et al. PRD 105, 024023 (2022) [7] Chatterjee et al. ApJ 896, 54 (2020) [8] Singer & Price PRD 93, 024013 (2016)

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