TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 43512 SUBJECT: IceCube-260125A - IceCube observation of a high-energy neutrino candidate track-like event DATE: 26/01/25 11:33:55 GMT FROM: A. Zegarelli at Ruhr University Bochum <azegarelli@icecube.wisc.edu> The IceCube Collaboration (http://icecube.wisc.edu/) reports: On 26-01-25 at 10:09:39.88 UT IceCube detected a track-like event with a moderate probability of being of astrophysical origin. The event was selected by the ICECUBE_Astrotrack_BRONZE alert stream. The average astrophysical neutrino purity for Bronze alerts is 30%. This alert has an estimated false alarm rate of 1.9783 events per year due to atmospheric backgrounds. The IceCube detector was in a normal operating state at the time of detection. After the initial automated alert (https://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/notices_amon_g_b/141985_63695019.amon), more sophisticated reconstruction algorithms have been applied offline, with the direction refined to: Date: 26-01-25 Time: 10:09:39.88 UT RA: 243.72 (+0.52/-0.56 deg 90% PSF containment) J2000 Dec: 6.69 (+0.62/-0.61 deg 90% PSF containment) J2000 As announced in GCN Circular 43419, IceCube alert notices for high-energy track alerts are now also streamed via Kafka. IceCube Gold/Bronze track alerts are available on the Kafka topic 'gcn.notices.icecube.gold_bronze_track_alerts'. The probability distribution of the true neutrino direction, allowing the extraction of precise 90% containment regions around the best-fit direction, is now available for revised reconstruction of high-energy track alerts. The corresponding sky map is distributed as a FITS file and follows the explicit naming convention IceCube-YYMMDDX (e.g. IceCube-260125A, for this alert), where YYMMDD indicates the date of the event and X is a letter distinguishing multiple alerts on the same day. The download link (e.g., for this alert https://roc-2.icecube.wisc.edu/public/alerts/IceCube-260125A_skymap_probdens...) is provided through the GCN schema distributed via Kafka. Additional information will be soon available at https://gcn.nasa.gov/missions/icecube. In the near future, classical GCN stream will be deactivated. No known gamma-ray sources listed in the Fermi 4FGL-DR4 or 3FHL catalogs are located within the 90% uncertainty region of this event. 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 View this GCN Circular online at https://gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/43512. --- To unsubscribe, open this link in a web browser: https://gcn.nasa.gov/unsubscribe/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJlbWFpbCI6InZzbmV0LW...