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GCN Circular 25890

Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190930t: Coverage and upper limits from MAXI/GSC observations
Date
2019-10-01T03:55:30Z (5 years ago)
From
Motoko Serino at RIKEN/MAXI <motoko@crab.riken.jp>
M. Serino, S. Sugita (AGU), 
N. Kawai (Tokyo Tech), H. Negoro (Nihon U.), 
M. Nakajima, W. Maruyama, M. Aoki, K. Kobayashi (Nihon U.), 
T. Mihara, 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, N. Isobe, 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 S190930t at 2019-09-30 14:34:07.685 UTC (GCN 25876). 

At the trigger time of S190930t, the high-voltage of MAXI/GSC was on. 
The instantaneous field of view of GSC at the GW trigger time covered 2% of the 90% credible region 
of the bayestar sky map, in which we found no significant new X-ray source. 
The first one-orbit (92 min) scan observation with GSC after the event covered 75% 
of the 90% credible region of the bayestar skymap from 14:34:07 to 16:06:04 UTC (T0+0 to T0+5517 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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