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GCN Circular 26545

Subject
LIGO/Virgo S191222n: INTEGRAL was inactive at the time of the event
Date
2019-12-22T05:07:41Z (4 years ago)
From
Alexander Lutovinov at Space Research Inst.,IKI <aal@iki.rssi.ru>
Alexander Lutovinov (IKI, Moscow), 
Sandro Mereghetti (INAF IASF-Milano, Italy), 
V. Savchenko, C. Ferrigno (ISDC/UniGE, Switzerland)
J. Rodi (IAPS-Roma, Italy)
A. Coleiro (APC, France)
on behalf of the INTEGRAL multi-messenger collaboration:
https://www.astro.unige.ch/cdci/integral-multimessenger-collaboration

The INTEGRAL spacecraft has a highly elliptical orbit and the
instruments are not acquiring science data during perigee passage,
every 2.6 days to prevent radiation-induced damages. Unfortunately, at
the time of the S191222n (2019-12-22 03:35:37, GCN26543) the spacecraft
was preparing to the start the observations after the perigee passage
between the orbits number 2173 and 2174 and no scientific instrument
data are available between 2019-12-21T18:45:19 and
2019-12-22T10:44:07.
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