[vsnet-grb-info 23614] LIGO/Virgo S190910h: No counterpart candidates in AGILE-MCAL observations

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  25713
SUBJECT: LIGO/Virgo S190910h: No counterpart candidates in AGILE-MCAL observations
DATE:    19/09/10 12:37:27 GMT
FROM:    Giovanni Piano at INAF-IAPS  <giovanni.piano at inaf.it>

G. Piano, C. Casentini (INAF/IAPS), F. Verrecchia (SSDC, and INAF/OAR), M.
Tavani (INAF/IAPS, and Univ. Roma Tor Vergata), M. Cardillo, A. Ursi
(INAF/IAPS), F. Lucarelli, C. Pittori (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 S190910h at T0 = 2019-09-10 08:29:58
(UT), a preliminary analysis of the AGILE minicalorimeter (MCAL) triggered
data found no event candidates within a time interval covering -/+ 15 sec
from the LIGO/Virgo T0.

At the T0, about 60% of the S190910h 90 c.l. localization region was
accessible to the AGILE MCAL.Three-sigma upper limits (ULs) are obtained
for a 1 s integration time at different celestial positions within the
accessible S190910h localization region, from a minimum of 1.33E-06 erg
cm^-2 to a maximum of 7.35E-06 erg cm^-2 (assuming as spectral model a
single power law with photon index 1.5).

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.