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GCN Circular 19258

Subject
LIGO/Virgo G211117: 10.4m GTC follow-up of PS15dpn
Date
2016-04-04T10:24:24Z (9 years ago)
From
Alberto J. Castro-Tirado at IAA-CSIC <ajct@iaa.es>
A. J. Castro-Tirado (IAA-CSIC), M.-D. Caballero-Garcia (ASU-CAS), S.R. 
Oates (IAA-CSIC), S. Jeong (IAA-CSIC and SKKU), B-B. Zhang (IAA-CSIC) 
and E. Pian (SNS-Pisa), report:

���Further to GCNCs 19145, 18848, 18811 and 18786, we report the 
spectroscopic follow-up of the Pan-STARRS transient PS15dpn within the 
localisation region of G211117. OSIRIS spectra (2 x 600s) at the 10.4m 
GTC in La Palma were taken on 5 Jan 2016 and covered the range 700-1000 
nm. r-band photometric observations were performed near-simultaneously 
to the optical spectroscopy.  We confirm the z=0.1749 redshift from the 
host galaxy based on the detection of H-alpha and NII emission lines in 
this range.���
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