Neutrino alert!

An intriguing event has just been detected by the IceCube neutrino telescope!

This event has a 27.3% chance to be a neutrino of astrophysical origin. An event as significant or more should be produced by the background noise every 100 days in average.

Its energy is estimated to be around 107 TeV 1 and its source is located with a 90% probability to be within a zone of 5.60 square deg 2.

Is it the result of a blazar, a supernovae…? This alert has been sent to astronomers around the world so they can point their telescopes toward the source of this event. An other signal from a different messenger could allow to identify the source and understand the mechanisms powering this emission.

Complete set of information:

This event has been detected on 2023-01-22T03:50:02.000612 UTC (Coordinated Universal Time).
The algorithm estimates its source location to be around the following coordinates: right ascension = 17.6737 degrees, declination = 8.3807 degrees with a 90% probability to be within a disk of radius 80.1 arcmin and a 50% probability to be within a disk of 31.2 arcmin radius.
The uncertainty in the location of the event is based on statistical uncertainty only, not accounting for the systematic error which should be smaller. The estimated energy is 1.07660*10^2 TeV.
The background noise should produce an event at least as significant 3.62 times per year which leads to a probability of 27.30% that this event is a track-like neutrino of astrophysical origin.

  1. 538299 times the average energy released in nuclear fission of one Uranium-235 atom
  2. 25 times smaller than the moon angular coverage

Neutrino alert!

An intriguing event has just been detected by the IceCube neutrino telescope!

This event has a 28.4% chance to be a neutrino of astrophysical origin. An event as significant or more should be produced by the background noise every 90 days in average.

Its energy is estimated to be around 111 TeV 1 and its source is located with a 90% probability to be within a zone of 0.83 square deg 2.

Is it the result of a blazar, a supernovae…? This alert has been sent to astronomers around the world so they can point their telescopes toward the source of this event. An other signal from a different messenger could allow to identify the source and understand the mechanisms powering this emission.

Complete set of information:

This event has been detected on 2023-01-12T06:44:50.603724 UTC (Coordinated Universal Time).
The algorithm estimates its source location to be around the following coordinates: right ascension = 24.8146 degrees, declination = 0.5131 degrees with a 90% probability to be within a disk of radius 30.8 arcmin and a 50% probability to be within a disk of 12.0 arcmin radius.
The uncertainty in the location of the event is based on statistical uncertainty only, not accounting for the systematic error which should be smaller. The estimated energy is 1.11244*10^2 TeV.
The background noise should produce an event at least as significant 4.05 times per year which leads to a probability of 28.43% that this event is a track-like neutrino of astrophysical origin.

  1. 556219 times the average energy released in nuclear fission of one Uranium-235 atom
  2. 3 times smaller than the moon angular coverage

Gamma ray burst alert!

An intriguing event has just been detected by the HAWC gamma ray telescope!

An event as significant or more should be produced by the background noise fluctuation every 33 days in average. Its source is located with a 90% probability to be within a zone of 0.50 square deg 1.

Is it the result of a blazar, a supernovae…? This alert has been sent to astronomers around the world so they can point their telescopes toward the source of this event. An other signal from a different messenger could allow to identify the source and understand the mechanisms involved.

Complete set of information:

This event has been detected on 2023-01-05T10:12:43.000000 UTC (Coordinated Universal Time).
The algorithm estimates its source location to be around the following coordinates: right ascension = 200.2800 degrees, declination = -7.5000 degrees with a 90% probability to be within a disk of radius 24.0 arcmin.
The uncertainty in the location of the event account for statistics and systematics uncertainties.
The background noise should produce an event at least as significant 11.06 times per year.

  1. 2 times smaller than the moon angular coverage

Neutrino alert!

An intriguing event has just been detected by the IceCube neutrino telescope!

This event has a 90.0% chance to be a neutrino of astrophysical origin. An event as significant or more should be produced by the background noise every 1173 days in average.

Its energy is estimated to be around 55 TeV 1 and its source is located with a 90% probability to be within a zone of 156.79 square deg 2.

Is it the result of a blazar, a supernovae…? This alert has been sent to astronomers around the world so they can point their telescopes toward the source of this event. An other signal from a different messenger could allow to identify the source and understand the mechanisms powering this emission.

Complete set of information:

This event has been detected on 2023-01-09T11:12:11.299131 UTC (Coordinated Universal Time).
The algorithm estimates its source location to be around the following coordinates: right ascension = 174.8092 degrees, declination = 45.3299 degrees with a 90% probability to be within a disk of radius 424.1 arcmin and a 50% probability to be within a disk of 232.7 arcmin radius.
The uncertainty in the location of the event is based on statistical uncertainty only, not accounting for the systematic error which should be smaller. The estimated energy is 5.55718*10^1 TeV.
The background noise should produce an event at least as significant 0.31 times per year which leads to a probability of 90.00% that this event is a track-like neutrino of astrophysical origin.

The figure below is the estimated localisation of this event’s source we have from the signal. The yellow area corresponds to the most probable zone.

  1. 277858 times the average energy released in nuclear fission of one Uranium-235 atom
  2. 716 times smaller than the moon angular coverage