GCN Circular 21871
Subject
LIGO/Virgo G298936: Konus-Wind observations
Date
2017-09-12T14:43:07Z (8 years ago)
From
Dmitry Svinkin at Ioffe Institute <svinkin@mail.ioffe.ru>
D. Svinkin, S. Golenetskii, R.Aptekar, D. Frederiks, P. Oleynik,
M. Ulanov, A. Tsvetkova, A. Lysenko, A. Kozlova, and T. Cline,
on behalf of the Konus-Wind team, report:
Konus-Wind (KW) was observing the whole sky at the time of the
LIGO/Virgo event G298936 (2017-08-23 13:13:58.522 UTC, hereafter T0;
LIGO/Virgo Collaboration GCN Circ. 21656).
No triggered KW event happened from ~0.6 days before and up to ~1.8 days
after T0. The closest waiting-mode event was ~2.5 hours before T0.
Using waiting-mode data within the interval T0 +/- 100 s,
we found no significant (> 5 sigma) excess over the background
in both KW detectors on temporal scales from 2.944 s to 100 s.
We estimate an upper limit (90% conf.) on the 10 keV ��� 10 MeV fluence
to 8.8x10^-7 erg/cm^2 for a burst lasting less than 2.944 s and having a
typical KW short GRB spectrum (an exponentially cut off power law with
alpha =-0.5 and Ep=500 keV). For a typical long GRB spectrum (the Band
function with alpha=-1, beta=-2.5, and Ep=300 keV), the corresponding
limiting peak flux is 2.9x10^-7 erg/cm^2/s (10 keV - 10 MeV, 2.944 s scale).
All the quoted values are preliminary.