GCN Circular 24154
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190408an: Liverpool Telescope follow-up imaging observations
Date
2019-04-23T12:17:13Z (6 years ago)
From
Peter Jonker at SRON/RU <p.jonker@sron.nl>
P.G. Jonker (SRON/RU), M. Fraser (UCD), Manuel Torres (IAC), Pablo
Rodriguez-Gil (University of La Laguna), Kate Maguire (TCD), Z.
Kostrzewa-Rutkowska (SRON/RU), report, on behalf of the International Time
Proposal team, on Liverpool Telescope 3x300 sec r'-band imaging observations
obtained on 2019-04-21T05:47:58 of the transient candidate(s) Gaia19bij found by
the Gaia Alerts team (Kostrzewa-Rutkowska et al. GCN#24124) in the sky
localisation region of GW190408 / S190408an (Singer et al. GCN 24069):
Gaia19bij was found at r'~19, approximately 1.5" off-nuclear from a faint host
galaxy.
Acknowledgements: PGJ and ZKR acknowledge support from the European Research
Council under ERC Consolidator Grant agreement no 647208.