# MAXI upper limits of the electromagnetic counterpart of GW170817

@article{Sugita2018MAXIUL,
title={MAXI upper limits of the electromagnetic counterpart of GW170817},
author={S. Sugita and N. Kawai and S. Nakahira and H. Negoro and M. Serino and T. Mihara and K. Yamaoka and M. Nakajima},
journal={Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan},
year={2018},
volume={70}
}
• S. Sugita, +5 authors M. Nakajima
• Published 2018
• Physics
• Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
• We report the MAXI observation of the gravitational-wave (GW) event GW170817 and the electromagnetic counterpart of GW170817. GW170817 is a binary neutron star coalescence candidate detected by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors, and it is the first event for which the optical counterpart has been discovered. In the MAXI observation, the Gas Slit Camera (GSC) covered approximately 62% of the sky region of the GW event within 90% probability during the first 92 min of orbit after the… CONTINUE READING