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GCN Circular 18730

Subject
LIGO/Virgo G211117: SWASP optical observations
Date
2015-12-27T23:05:46Z (9 years ago)
From
Danny Steeghs at U of Warwick/GOTO <D.T.H.Steeghs@warwick.ac.uk>
D.Steeghs, D.Pollacco, D.Galloway, G.Ramsay, V.Dhillon & P.O'Brien on behalf of the GOTO consortium report:


Following GCN #18728, the SuperWASP Exoplanet camera on La Palma started imaging the error regions containing G211117/G211182 at 19:17 UT Dec 27 2015. The camera array has already mapped the northern lobe of the reported LIGO/VIRGO skymap 10 times over a 3.5 hr period to a depth of around V~16th. Observations are continuing.
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