{
  "bibcode": "2019GCN.24351....1K",
  "body": "H. Kumar, V. Karambelkar, V. Bhalerao, K Deshmukh, M. Khandagale (IITB), G.\nC. Anupama, T. Stanzin, U. Stanzin (IIA) report on behalf of the GROWTH\ncollaboration:\n\nWe observed the field of GRAWITA_J215716.26+832239.4 reported by L. Izzo\net.al. (GCN 24340) at 2019-04-29T21:04:39.694 UT with the 0.7m GROWTH-India\ntelescope. The image was taken in r filter with 600 sec exposure. We did\nnot find any source at the specified position up to mag_lim ~ 19.8,\ncalibrated with PS1 photometry.\n\nWe also continued follow-up of the localisation region of the GW candidate\nevent S190426c (LVC et al. GCN 24168, G. Waratkar et. al. GCN 24316) with\nthe GROWTH-India telescope in the northernmost part of the sky. We obtained\n43 r-band overlapping images covering a total area of 12.1 square degrees,\nwith 8.9% probability of containing the GW counterpart on 20190428 and 16\nr-band overlapping images covering a total area of 4.4 square degrees, with\n4.1% probability of on 20190829. Exposures were 600 seconds long and\nreached a typical depth of 20.5 magnitude. Data processing is underway. On\n20190428 (20190429), these fields contain 313(104) galaxies from the GLADE\ncatalog and 10(4) galaxies from NED. No obvious transients were seen in the\nNED galaxies.\n\nThe GROWTH India Telescope (GIT) is a 70-cm telescope with a 0.7 degree\nfield of view, set up by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics and the\nIndian Institute of Technology Bombay with support from the Indo-US Science\nand Technology Forum (IUSSTF) and the Science and Engineering Research\nBoard (SERB) of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government\nof India (https://sites.google.com/view/growthindia/). It is located at the\nIndian Astronomical Observatory (Hanle), operated by the Indian Institute\nof Astrophysics (IIA).",
  "circularId": 24351,
  "createdOn": 1556620989000,
  "email": "harshkosli13@gmail.com",
  "subject": "LIGO/Virgo S190426c: GROWTH India follow-up of GRAWITA transient",
  "submitter": "Harsh Kumar at Indian Inst of Tech,Bombay  <harshkosli13@gmail.com>",
  "eventId": "LIGO/Virgo S190426c"
}