TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 26835 SUBJECT: LIGO/Virgo S191216ap: Upper limits from Konus-Wind observations DATE: 20/01/21 08:46:32 GMT FROM: Anna Ridnaia at Ioffe Institute 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 S191216ap (2019-12-16 21:33:38.473 UTC, hereafter T0; LIGO/Virgo Collaboration GCN Circ. 26454). No triggered KW GRBs happened ~14 days before and ~1 day after T0. The closest waiting-mode GRB was observed ~29 hours after 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 8.1x10^-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 2.4x10^-7 erg/cm^2/s (20 - 1500 keV, 2.944 s scale). All the quoted values are preliminary.