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GCN Circular 24074

Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190408an: KMTNet observation
Date
2019-04-09T02:56:24Z (5 years ago)
From
Myungshin Im at Seoul Nat U <mim@astro.snu.ac.kr>
Myungshin Im (SNU), Joonho Kim (SNU), Gregory S. H. Paek (SNU), Sungyong
Hwang (SNU), Sophia Kim (SNU), Changsu Choi (SNU), Gu Lim (SNU), Chung-Uk
Lee (KASI), Seung-Lee Kim (KASI), Hyung Mok Lee (KASI), on behalf of a
larger collaboration

We performed the search for the EM counterpart of S190408an (Singer et al.
GCN 24069) using the KMTNet telescopes, covering about 30 deg^2 area that
encompasses the highest confidence regions observable from the southern
hemisphere. The observation at the South Africa site has been completed,
and the observations are scheduled at the Chile and Australia sites. The
central coordinate of each 2 deg x 2deg pointing is given below.

G329243-0-0(R)  14:51:33.7   -41:24:41        B,R     120
G329243-1-0(R)  14:43:33.8   -41:24:41        B,R     120
G329243-2-0(R)  14:59:33.7   -41:24:41        B,R     120
G329243-3-0(R)  14:51:33.7   -39:24:41        B,R     120
G329243-4-0(R)  14:51:33.7   -43:24:41        B,R     120
G329243-5-0(R)  14:43:33.8   -39:24:41        B,R     120
G329243-6-0(R)  14:59:33.7   -43:24:41        B,R     120
G329243-7-0(R)  14:43:33.8   -43:24:41        B,R     120

The observations and the analysis of the data are ongoing. We thank the
observers at the KMTNet sites for performing the observation.
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