{
  "bibcode": "2015GCN.18340....1K",
  "body": "M. M. Kasliwal (Caltech), J. K. Cannizzo (NASA/UMBC), N. Gehrels (NASA\nGSFC)  and P. Evans (U. Leicester)\n\nreport on behalf of a larger collaboration\n\nWe cross-matched the LIGO/Virgo G184098 trigger (95% containment contour)\nwith our Census of the Local Universe (CLU) galaxy catalog. The biggest,\nnearby galaxy is of course the Large Magellanic Cloud. But if we limit our\nsearch to galaxies that constitute the top half of the Schechter function\nin the 80 Mpc volume, we find about 170 galaxies. Furthermore, weighing the\ngalaxy luminosity with the underlying containment probability, here are the\ntop ten potential host galaxies in our list:\n\nName          RA(J2000) DEC(J2000)\nESO088-G017  112.250  -66.897\nNGC2442      114.099  -69.531\nIC2202       111.977  -67.574\nESO090-G011  134.577  -65.368\nNGC3110      151.009  -6.475\nNGC3145      152.541  -12.434\nNGC2967      145.514  0.336\nESO126-G003  138.663  -60.434\nNGC2187A      90.934  -69.588\nNGC2150       88.943  -69.561\n\nWe caution that the probability contained in these galaxies is a small\nfraction of the total. Yet, these may be interesting for deeper searches\nwhere wide-angle is unavailable. For example, see Evans et al. notice for\nSwift satellite follow-up of this trigger.  For more details about the\nrationale for selection and the CLU galaxy catalog, see Gehrels et al.\n2015; http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.03608\n\n[GCN OPS NOTE(19sep15): This Circular was originally published on 08:49 18-Sep-2015 UT.]",
  "circularId": 18340,
  "createdOn": 1442713732000,
  "email": "mansi@astro.caltech.edu",
  "subject": "LIGO/Virgo G184098: Nearby Galaxies in Error Circle",
  "submitter": "Mansi M. Kasliwal at Caltech  <mansi@astro.caltech.edu>",
  "eventId": "LIGO/Virgo G184098"
}