IceCat-1: the IceCube Event Catalog of Alert Tracks

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Abstract

We present a catalog of likely astrophysical neutrino track-like events from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. IceCube began reporting likely astrophysical neutrinos in 2016 and this system was updated in 2019. The catalog presented here includes events that were reported in real-time since 2019, as well as events identified in archival data samples starting from 2011. We report 275 neutrino events from two selection channels as the first entries in the catalog, the IceCube Event Catalog of Alert Tracks, which will see ongoing extensions with additional alerts. The gold and bronze alert channels respectively provide neutrino candidates with 50\% and 30\% probability of being astrophysical, on average assuming an astrophysical neutrino power law energy spectral index of 2.19. For each neutrino alert, we provide the reconstructed energy, direction, false alarm rate, probability of being astrophysical in origin, and likelihood contours describing the spatial uncertainty in the alert's reconstructed location. We also investigate a directional correlation of these neutrino events with gamma-ray and X-ray catalogs including 4FGL, 3HWC, TeVCat and Swift-BAT.
Original languageEnglish
Article number25
Number of pages18
JournalThe Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Volume269
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 3 Nov 2023

Bibliographical note

Accepted for publication in ApJS. Online version of the catalog is available on dataverse at https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SCRUCD

Keywords

  • astro-ph.HE
  • astro-ph.CO

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