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GCN Circular 20804

Subject
LIGO/Virgo G275697: MAXI/GSC observations
Date
2017-03-03T10:18:06Z (8 years ago)
From
Satoshi Sugita at Tokyo Inst. of Tech. <sugita@hp.phys.titech.ac.jp>
S. Sugita, N. Kawai (Tokyo Tech), M. Serino (RIKEN), H. Negoro (Nihon U.),
S. Ueno, H. Tomida, S. Nakahira, M. Ishikawa, Y. Sugawara (JAXA),
Y. E. Nakagawa (JAMSTEC),
T. Mihara, M. Sugizaki, W. Iwakiri, M. Shidatsu, J. Sugimoto, T.
Takagi, M. Matsuoka (RIKEN),
N.Isobe, T. Yoshii, Y. Tachibana, Y. Ono, T. Fujiwara, S. Harita, Y.
Muraki (Tokyo Tech),
A. Yoshida, T. Sakamoto, Y. Kawakubo, Y. Kitaoka (AGU),
H. Tsunemi, R. Shomura (Osaka U.),
M. Nakajima, K. Tanaka, T. Masumitsu, T. Kawase (Nihon U.),
Y. Ueda, T. Kawamuro, T. Hori, A. Tanimoto, S. Oda (Kyoto U.),
Y. Tsuboi, Y. Nakamura, R. Sasaki (Chuo U.),
M. Yamauchi, K. Furuya (Miyazaki U.),
K. Yamaoka (Nagoya U.)
report on behalf of the MAXI team:

We examined the MAXI/GSC all-sky X-ray images (2-20 keV) obtained
in the orbit and the day after the LVC trigger
G275697 at 2017-02-27 18:57:31.375 UTC (GCN 20763).

In the 92-min orbit, MAXI/GSC scanned more than 56%
of the whole sky, which includes 52.5% of the
90% regions in the bayestar skymap.
One day image covers 94.1% of the 90% regions
in the bayestar skymap.
No significant new source was found in these images.

The upper limits for the X-ray flux are different depending
on the part of the sky.
For instance, typical 2-20 keV 1-sigma (3-sigma) upper limits obtained
from the one-orbit and oneday images are
12 (36) mCrab and 3 (9) mCrab, respectively.
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