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GCN Circular 27280

Subject
LIGO/Virgo S200302c: Coverage and upper limits from MAXI/GSC observations
Date
2020-03-02T04:01:12Z (5 years ago)
From
Satoshi Sugita at Aoyama Gakuin U. <sugita@phys.aoyama.ac.jp>
N. Kawai (Tokyo Tech), H. Negoro (Nihon U.),
S. Sugita, M. Serino (AGU),
M. Nakajima, W. Maruyama, M. Aoki, K. Kobayashi, R. Takagi (Nihon U.),
T. Mihara, C. Guo, Y. Zhou, T. Tamagawa, M. Matsuoka (RIKEN),
T. Sakamoto, H. Nishida, A. Yoshida (AGU),
Y. Tsuboi, W. Iwakiri, R. Sasaki, H. Kawai, T. Sato (Chuo U.),
M. Shidatsu (Ehime U.), M. Oeda, K. Shiraishi (Tokyo Tech),
S. Nakahira, Y. Sugawara, S. Ueno, H. Tomida, M. Ishikawa, R.
Shimomukai, M. Tominaga (JAXA),
Y. Ueda, A. Tanimoto, S. Yamada, S. Ogawa, K. Setoguchi, T. Yoshitake
(Kyoto U.),
H. Tsunemi, T. Yoneyama, K. Asakura, S. Ide (Osaka U.),
M. Yamauchi, S. Iwahori, Y. Kurihara, K. Kurogi, K. Miike (Miyazaki U.),
T. Kawamuro (NAOJ), K. Yamaoka (Nagoya U.), Y. Kawakubo (LSU), M.
Sugizaki (NAOC)
report on behalf of the MAXI team:

We examined MAXI/GSC all-sky X-ray images (2-20 keV)
after the LVC trigger S200302c at 2020-03-02 01:58:11.519 UTC (GCN 27278).

At the trigger time of S200302c, the high-voltage of MAXI/GSC was off,
and it was turned on at T0+557 sec (+9.3 min).
The first one-orbit (92 min) scan observation with GSC after the event
covered 57%
of the 90% credible region of the bayestar skymap from 02:07:28 to
03:24:53 UTC (T0+557 to T0+5202 sec).

No significant new source was found in the region in the one-orbit
scan observation.
A typical 1-sigma averaged upper limit obtained in one scan observation
is 20 mCrab at 2-20 keV.

If you require information about X-ray flux by MAXI/GSC at specific coordinates,
please contact the submitter of this circular by email.
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