LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S250920bq
GCN Circular 41902
Subject
LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S250920bq: Coverage and upper limits from MAXI/GSC observations
Date
2025-09-20T14:43:37Z (5 days ago)
From
Satoshi Sugita at Aoyama Gakuin U. <sugita@phys.aoyama.ac.jp>
Via
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Y. Kawakubo, S. Sugita, M. Serino, H. Hiramatsu, Y. Kondo (AGU)
H. Negoro, M. Nakajima, K. Takagi (Nihon U.),
N. Kawai, T. Mihara, (RIKEN),
report on behalf of the MAXI team:
We examined MAXI/GSC all-sky X-ray images (2-20 keV)
after compact binary merger candidate S250920bq at 2025-09-20 10:27:39.063 UTC.
At the trigger time of S250920bq, the high-voltage of MAXI/GSC was on,
but the FOV was out of the 90% credible region of the bayestar skymap.
The first one-orbit (92 min) scan observation with GSC after the event covered 100%
of the 90% credible region of the bayestar skymap from 10:30:54 to 10:46:39 UTC (T0+195 to T0+1140 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.