TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 21871 SUBJECT: LIGO/Virgo G298936: Konus-Wind observations DATE: 17/09/12 14:43:07 GMT FROM: Dmitry Svinkin at Ioffe Institute D. Svinkin, S. Golenetskii, R.Aptekar, D. Frederiks, P. Oleynik, M. Ulanov, A. Tsvetkova, A. Lysenko, A. Kozlova, 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 G298936 (2017-08-23 13:13:58.522 UTC, hereafter T0; LIGO/Virgo Collaboration GCN Circ. 21656). No triggered KW event happened from ~0.6 days before and up to ~1.8 days after T0. The closest waiting-mode event was ~2.5 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 10 keV – 10 MeV fluence to 8.8x10^-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 2.9x10^-7 erg/cm^2/s (10 keV - 10 MeV, 2.944 s scale). All the quoted values are preliminary.