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GCN Circular 24222

Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190425z: LWA1 observations
Date
2019-04-26T13:39:10Z (5 years ago)
From
Christopher League at FRBSG <cleague@gmail.com>
C. League (LIU Brooklyn), M.J. Kavic (SUNY Old Westbury), J.H.
Simonetti (Virginia Tech), J. Dowell (U New Mexico), G.B. Taylor (U
New Mexico), J. Tsai, J. Kanner (Cal Tech), P. Shawhan (U Maryland),
C. Yancey (U Maryland)

The Long Wavelength Array (LWA1, located west of Socorro, New Mexico,
US) made beam-formed observations for 4 hours on April 25 following the
LVC_INITIAL notice S190425z (GCN 24168). Observations began at 09:02:43
UTC, about 2 minutes after the notice, which was ~45 minutes after the
detection.

The observations were centered at frequencies 25.85 MHz and 45.45 MHz,
each with a bandwidth of 19.6 MHz. The FWHM is 15.499 degrees at 25.85
MHz, and 6.648 degrees at 45.45 MHz.

The three beams were centered at RA 16.171h, Dec 22.831deg; RA
15.937h, Dec 26.110deg; RA 16.382h, Dec 19.313deg.

Data analysis is under way.
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