TO: All GCN Notice recipients RE: AMON NU_EM_COINC Notice type is available DT: 28 May 2020 INTRODUCTION: The GCN system has been modified to incorporate the distribution of the AMON_NU_EM_COINC (Extreme High Energy) Notice type. The NU_EM_COINC notice is due to a coincidence of high-energy neutrino data and high-energy electromagnetic data. Like all the other sources of transient information within the GCN system, users can elect to receive this AMON_NU_EM_COINC Notice type. OCCURRENCE RATE: There will be about 4-8 AMON_NU_EM_COINC Notices per year. TIME DELAY: The time delays for this notice type will range from 3 to 7 hours from the event. The delay depends on the latency of the data from the EM observatories (HAWC and Fermi). LOCATION ERROR: The location uncertainties are in the 0.2-0.1 deg range (radius, stat only, 50% containment and 90% containment). It is a combination of the neutrino uncertainaty and the EM uncertainty. The uncertainty and position are found after maximizing the best likelihood of the coincidence given the data. NOTICE TYPE, CONTENT, and PURPOSE: This notice type contains a discovery of a temporal and spatial coincidence of high-energy ( ~ TeV) neutrinos from the IceCube or the ANTARES detector and high energy gamma-ray data from HAWC (100 GeV - 100 TeV) or from Fermi (100MeV - 100 GeV). These can be caused by Supernova, GRBs, GW Binary mergers, other astrophysical transients, and sometimes background. The Notices contain the date, time, trigger number, and the FAR. It contains the RA, Dec location of the best-combined direction from the neutrino and gamma-ray events. ACTION ITEM: If, after reviewing the information below, you want to receive these AMON_NU_EM_COINC notices, please send me a request to have them enabled. You can do this by forwarding this email (which has your sitename identifier) to sbarthel@milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov . 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ARCHIVE STORAGE: The GCN/AMON_NU_EM_COINC Notices are archived within the GCN website in the Table of AMON_NU_EM_COINC Notices: http://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/gcn/amon_nu_em_coinc_events.html MORE INFORMATION: Can be found at: http://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/gcn/amon.html NOTICE EXAMPLES: Here is an example of a full-format email AMON_NU_EM_COINC Notice, in the VOEvent format, and a pointer to the 160Byte-binary packet format: (Note all values are made up for this listing of the contents.) ======================================================================== TITLE: GCN/AMON NOTICE NOTICE_DATE: Thu 22 May 20 20:24:59 UT NOTICE_TYPE: AMON Neutrino-EM Coincidence AMON_STREAM: 1 EVENT_DATE: 200522A EVENT_NUM: 48580 REVISION: 0 RUN_NUM: 0 SRC_RA: 23.0100d {+01h 32m 02s} (J2000), 23.2633d {+01h 33m 03s} (current), 22.3889d {+01h 29m 33s} (1950) SRC_DEC: -10.1300d {-10d 07' 47"} (J2000), -10.0256d {-10d 01' 31"} (current), -10.3868d {-10d 23' 12"} (1950) SRC_ERROR: 35.93 [arcmin radius, stat-only, 90% containment] SRC_ERROR50: 19.80 [arcmin radius, stat-only, 50% containment] DISCOVERY_DATE: 18991 TJD; 143 DOY; 20/05/22 (yy/mm/dd) DISCOVERY_TIME: 66098 SOD {18:21:38.00} UT COINC_PAIR: 1 IC-HAWC [index and actual string] DELTA_T: 17056.25 [sec] FAR: 3.2255e+04 [yr^-1] TRIG_ID18: 0x40 MISC19: 0xAC000000 SUN_POSTN: 66.19d {+04h 24m 45s} +21.63d {+21d 37' 55"} SUN_DIST: 52.69 [deg] Sun_angle= 2.9 [hr] (West of Sun) MOON_POSTN: 145.05d {+09h 40m 12s} +18.40d {+18d 23' 48"} MOON_DIST: 123.17 [deg] GAL_COORDS: 154.23,-70.49 [deg] galactic lon,lat of the event ECL_COORDS: 17.35,-18.33 [deg] ecliptic lon,lat of the event COMMENTS: AMON NEUTRINO-EM Coincidence. ======================================================================== ivo://nasa.gsfc.tan/gcn AMON (via VO-TAN) Erik Blaufuss, James DeLaunay, Hugo Ayala blaufuss@umd.edu, jjd330@psu.edu, hgayala@psu.edu 2020-05-22T20:24:59 This VOEvent message was created with TAN VOE version: 1.48 21may20 GCN's Notice_Type ID number for the AMON_NE_EM_COINC Notice type. GCN's counting of how many are produced with GCN for each run session. The AMON Alert Stream ID number. The AMON Event ID number. The AMON Event Date. The AMON Run ID number. Revision of the alert. Index number (into an aray) of the 2 instruments in the Coincidence. False Alarm Rate, Number per year. Time window of the search Location error, statistical only. 90% containment. Location error, statistical only. 50% containment. Is this notice available only to the AMON team members, not public. If equal 1, then this event is no longer considered astrophysical. RA Dec 23.0100 -10.1300 0.3300 The RA,Dec coordinates are of the type: source_object. 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The full announcements/descriptions for each of these can be found at: http://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/gcn/whats_new.html LVC Notices are now public (Mar 2017) // The 4 LVC Notices going public FERMI_GBM_SUBTHRESHOLD (July 2017) // Fermi-GBM triggers below the normal acceptance level SWIFT_ACTUAL_POINTDIR (Nov 2016) // The actual pointing direction ~1 min after every slew CALET_LC (Mar 2016) // The Flight- & Ground-produced CALET-GBM lightcurves SNEWS (Dec 2015) // SNEWS neutrino coincidences and singles from supernovae Sincerely, Scott Scott Barthelmy NASA-GSFC, Code 661, Greenbelt, MD 20771 PHONE: 301-286-3106 (office) CELL: 301-346-3733 EMAIL: scott@milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov PAGER: 3013463733@cingularme.com WEB: http://gcn.gsfc.nasa.gov/gcn