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GCN Circular 24507

Subject
LIGO-Virgo S190512at: AGILE MCAL observations
Date
2019-05-12T20:02:58Z (5 years ago)
From
Alessandro Ursi at INAF/IAPS <alessandro.ursi@gmail.com>
A. Ursi (INAF/IAPS), C. Pittori (SSDC, and INAF/OAR), M. Tavani (INAF/IAPS,
and Univ. Roma Tor Vergata), M. Cardillo, C. Casentini, G. Piano
(INAF/IAPS), F. Lucarelli, F. Verrecchia (SSDC, and INAF/OAR), A.
Bulgarelli, V. Fioretti, N. Parmiggiani (INAF/OAS-Bologna), M. Pilia
(INAF/OA-Cagliari), F. Longo (Univ. Trieste, and INFN Trieste), report on
behalf of the AGILE Team:

In response to the LIGO-Virgo GW event S190512at at T0 = 2019-05-12
18:07:14 (UT), a preliminary analysis of the AGILE minicalorimeter (MCAL)
data found no data acquisitions related to the event, due to a complete
Earth occultation of the S190512at 90% c.l. localization region.

The AGILE-MCAL detector is a CsI detector with a 4 pi FoV, sensitive in the
energy range 0.4-100 MeV. Additional analysis of AGILE data is in progress.
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