GCN Circular 25369
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190814bv: Konus-Wind observations
Date
2019-08-16T15:29:04Z (5 years ago)
From
Dmitry Svinkin at Ioffe Institute <svinkin@mail.ioffe.ru>
D. Svinkin, S. Golenetskii, R.Aptekar, D. Frederiks,
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 S190814bv (2019-08-14 21:10:39.013 UTC, hereafter T0;
LIGO/Virgo Collaboration GCN Circ. 25324).
No triggered KW event happened from ~20 hours before and up to ~2 days
after T0. The closest waiting-mode event was ~1 hour before T0.
Using waiting-mode data within the interval T0 +/- 10 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 20 - 1500 keV fluence
to 5.9x10^-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 1.7x10^-7 erg/cm^2/s (20 - 1500 keV, 2.944 s scale).
All the quoted values are preliminary.