TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 37634 SUBJECT: LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S240930aa: Identification of a GW compact binary merger candidate DATE: 24/09/30 04:50:24 GMT FROM: Shreejit Jadhav at Swinburne University of Technology <shreejit.jadhav@ligo.org> The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration report: We identified the compact binary merger candidate S240930aa during real-time processing of data from LIGO Hanford Observatory (H1), LIGO Livingston Observatory (L1), and Virgo Observatory (V1) at 2024-09-30 03:59:59.963 UTC (GPS time: 1411704017.963). The candidate was found by the cWB [1], cWB BBH [2], GstLAL [3], MBTA [4], and SPIIR [5] analysis pipelines. S240930aa is an event of interest because its false alarm rate, as estimated by the online analysis, is 3.1e-19 Hz, or about one in 1e11 years. The event's properties can be found at this URL: https://gracedb.ligo.org/superevents/S240930aa The classification of the GW signal, in order of descending probability, is BBH (>99%), Terrestrial (<1%), NSBH (<1%), or BNS (<1%). Noise transients (glitches) belonging to a known class of instrumental artifacts were present in LIGO Livingston detector data within 10 seconds of the event time, which may affect the parameters or the significance of the candidate. Assuming the candidate is astrophysical in origin, the probability that the lighter compact object is consistent with a neutron star mass (HasNS) is <1%. [6] Using the masses and spins inferred from the signal, the probability of matter outside the final compact object (HasRemnant) is <1%. [6] Both HasNS and HasRemnant consider the support of several neutron star equations of state for maximum neutron star mass. 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 [7], distributed via GCN notice about 24 seconds after the candidate event time. * bayestar.multiorder.fits,1, an initial localization generated by BAYESTAR [7], 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 457 deg2. Marginalized over the whole sky, the a posteriori luminosity distance estimate is 1400 +/- 323 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/. [1] Klimenko et al. PRD 93, 042004 (2016) doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.93.042004 [2] T. Mishra et al. PRD 105, 083018 (2022) doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.105.083018 [3] Tsukada et al. PRD 108, 043004 (2023) doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.108.043004 and Ewing et al. (2023) arXiv:2305.05625 [4] Aubin et al. CQG 38, 095004 (2021) doi:10.1088/1361-6382/abe913 [5] Chu et al. PRD 105, 024023 (2022) doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.105.024023 [6] Chatterjee et al. ApJ 896, 54 (2020) doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab8dbe [7] Singer & Price PRD 93, 024013 (2016) doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.93.024013 View this GCN Circular online at https://gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/37634. --- To unsubscribe, open this link in a web browser: https://gcn.nasa.gov/unsubscribe/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJlbWFpbCI6InZzbmV0LW...