TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 44899 SUBJECT: IceCube-260610A - IceCube observation of a high-energy neutrino candidate track-like event DATE: 26/06/11 01:17:40 GMT FROM: janeth.phd@gmail.com The IceCube Collaboration (http://icecube.wisc.edu/) reports: On 26-06-10 at 20:02:41.03 UT IceCube detected a track-like event with a high probability of being of astrophysical origin. The event was selected by the ICECUBE_Astrotrack_GOLD alert stream. The average astrophysical neutrino purity for Gold alerts is 50%. Given the path through the IceCube detector (track traversing only a limited instrumented volume), the detector does not observe the full energy deposition as well as it would for a track crossing a larger portion of the array. This leads to some uncertainty in the p_astro value, circulated via GCN notice. Regardless, this track remains a strong candidate for an astrophysical neutrino event. This alert has an estimated false alarm rate of 0.1495 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/142709_10606089.amon), more sophisticated reconstruction algorithms have been applied offline, with the direction refined to: Date: 26-06-10 Time: 20:02:41.03 UT RA: 309.20 (+2.04/-2.06 deg 90% PSF containment) J2000 Dec: 37.22 (+0.96/-0.93 deg 90% PSF containment) J2000 As announced in GCN Circular 43419 (https://gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/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, where YYMMDD indicates the date of the event and X is a letter distinguishing multiple alerts on the same day. The download link is provided through the GCN schema distributed via Kafka. Detailed documentation describing the alert distribution, schemas, and probability maps is available at: https://gcn.nasa.gov/missions/icecube. Two gamma-ray sources from the Fermi 4FGL-DR4 catalog are located within the 90% uncertainty region of this event. The closest source is 4FGL J2035.0+3632 (PSR J2034+3632), at RA = 308.7571° and Dec = 36.5371° (J2000), with an angular separation of 0.77° from the best-fit event position. The second-closest source is 4FGL J2030.0+3641 (PSR J2030+3641), at RA = 307.5086° and Dec = 36.6872° (J2000), with an angular separation of 1.45° from the best-fit event position. 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/44899. --- To unsubscribe, open this link in a web browser: https://gcn.nasa.gov/unsubscribe/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJlbWFpbCI6InZzbmV0LW...