TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 25210 SUBJECT: LIGO/Virgo S190728q: Third update on neutrino search with IceCube DATE: 19/07/28 22:28:20 GMT FROM: Raamis Hussain at IceCube IceCube Collaboration (http://icecube.wisc.edu/) reports: This is an update of GCN 25197 including updated p-values for the map circulated in the 5-Update GCN notice. Searches for track-like muon neutrino events detected by IceCube consistent with the sky localization of gravitational-wave candidate S190728q in a time range of 1000 seconds [1] centered on the alert event time (2019-07-28 06:36:50.529 UTC to 2019-07-28 06:53:30.529 UTC) have been performed. During this time period IceCube was collecting good quality data. Two hypothesis tests were conducted. The first search is a maximum likelihood analysis which searches for a generic point-like neutrino source coincident with the given GW skymap [2]. The second uses a Bayesian approach to quantify the joint GW + neutrino event significance, which assumes a binary merger scenario and accounts for known astrophysical priors in the significance estimate, such as GW source distance [3]. One track-like event is found in spatial and temporal coincidence with the gravitational-wave candidate S190728q calculated from the map circulated in the 5-Update notice. This represents an overall p-value of 0.014 (2.21 sigma) from the generic transient search and an overall p-value of 0.010 (2.33 sigma) for the Bayesian search. These p-values measure the consistency of the observed track-like events with the known atmospheric backgrounds. The reported p-values can differ due to the estimated distance of the GW candidate. The distance is used as a prior in Bayesian binary merger search, while it is not taken into account in the generic transient point-like source search. Properties of the coincident events are shown below. dt|ra (deg)|dec (deg)|Angular Uncertainty(deg)|p-value (bayesian)|p-value(generic transient) -----+--------+---------+------------------------+------------------+-------------------------- -360|312.87 |5.85 |4.81 |0.010 |0.016 where: dt = Time offset (sec) of track event with respect to GW trigger. Angular uncertainty = Angular uncertainty of track event: the radius of a circle representing 90% CL containment by area. p-value = the p-value for this specific track event from each search. RA & Dec = Right ascension and declination in degrees quoted in J2000 epoch 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 [1] Baret et al., Astroparticle Physics 35, 1 (2011) [2] Braun et al., Astroparticle Physics 29, 299 (2008) [3] Bartos et al. arXiv:1810.11467 (2018) and Countryman et al.arXiv:1901.05486 (2019)