{
  "bibcode": "2019GCN.24269....1S",
  "body": "P. Short, M. Nicholl (Edinburgh), J. Anderson (ESO), T.-W. Chen (MPE), C. Inserra (Cardiff), O. Yaron (Weizmann), D. R. Young (QUB), C. Angus, M. Pursiainen, P. Wiseman (Southampton), S. Taubenberger (MPA), M. Gromadzki (Warsaw) on behalf of the ePESSTO+ collaboration\n\nWe obtained a spectrum of the transient PS19qu discovered by Pan-STARRS (Smith et al., GCN 24262)  during follow-up of the gravitational wave trigger S190425z (GCN 24168) , under the advanced Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey for Transient Objects (ePESSTO+; see Smartt et al. 2015, A&A, 579, 40 http://www.pessto.org). The observations were performed on the ESO New Technology Telescope at La Silla with the EFOSC2 instrument.\n\nThe spectrum is host-galaxy dominated. It shows a star-forming galaxy at z=0.183, significantly further away than the peak of the distance posterior from the GW sky map (GCN 24168). At this redshift, the absolute magnitude implied by the Pan-STARRS detection is -18.9 mag.\n\n[GCN OPS NOTE(27apr19): Per author's request, the \"26c\" in the Subject line and the \"26z\" in the first sentence\nwere changed to \"25z\".]",
  "circularId": 24269,
  "createdOn": 1556351572000,
  "email": "pshort@roe.ac.uk",
  "subject": "LIGO/Virgo S190425z - ePESSTO+ spectrum of candidate PS19qu",
  "submitter": "Phil Short at Royal Observatory of Edinburgh  <pshort@roe.ac.uk>",
  "eventId": "LIGO/Virgo S190425z"
}