IceCube-220405A: No Candidate Counterparts from the Zwicky Transient Facility
Abstract
As part of the ZTF neutrino follow up program (Stein et al. 2022), observed the localization region of the neutrino event IceCube-220405A (Lincetto et. al, GCN 31833) with the Palomar 48-inch telescope, equipped with the 47 square degree ZTF camera (Bellm et al. 2019, Graham et al. 2019). We started observations in the g- and r-band beginning at 2022-04-05 05:31 UTC, approximately 0.6 hours after event time. We covered 98.3% (7.5 sq deg) of the reported localization region. This estimate accounts for chip gaps. Two of the exposures lasted 300s, with a typical depth of 21.0 mag. The images were processed in real-time through the ZTF reduction and image subtraction pipelines at IPAC to search for potential counterparts (Masci et al. 2019). AMPEL (Nordin et al. 2019, Stein et al. 2021) was used to search the alerts database for candidates. We reject stellar sources (Tachibana and Miller 2018) and moving objects, and apply machine learning algorithms (Mahabal et al. 2019). No candidate counterparts were detected. ZTF and GROWTH are worldwide collaborations comprising Caltech, USA; IPAC, USA; WIS, Israel; OKC, Sweden; JSI/UMd, USA; DESY, Germany; TANGO, Taiwan; UW Milwaukee, USA; LANL, USA; TCD, Ireland; IN2P3, France. GROWTH acknowledges generous support of the NSF under PIRE Grant No 1545949. Alert distribution service provided by DIRAC@UW (Patterson et al. 2019). Alert database searches are done by AMPEL (Nordin et al. 2019). Alert filtering is performed with the AMPEL Follow-up Pipeline (Stein et al. 2021).
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GRB Coordinates Network
- Pub Date:
- April 2022
- Bibcode:
- 2022GCN.31843....1R