[vsnet-grb-info 24735] LIGO/Virgo S191215w: Upper limits from Konus-Wind observations

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TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  26834
SUBJECT: LIGO/Virgo S191215w: Upper limits from Konus-Wind observations
DATE:    20/01/21 08:43:23 GMT
FROM:    Anna Ridnaia at Ioffe Institute  <ridnaia at mail.ioffe.ru>

A. Ridnaia, S. Golenetskii, R.Aptekar, D. Frederiks,
M. Ulanov, D. Svinkin, A. Tsvetkova, A. Lysenko, 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 S191215w (2019-12-15 22:30:52.333 UTC, hereafter T0;
LIGO/Virgo Collaboration GCN Circ. 26441).

No triggered KW GRBs happened ~13 days before and ~2 days
after T0. The closest waiting-mode GRB was observed ~23 hours before T0.
Using waiting-mode data within the interval T0 +/- 100 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 8.5x10^-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 2.6x10^-7 erg/cm^2/s (20 - 1500 keV, 2.944 s scale).

All the quoted values are preliminary.