GCN Circular 24362
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190425z: Gaia Photometric Alerts transient candidate
Date
2019-05-01T13:54:04Z (5 years ago)
From
Zuzanna Kostrzewa-Rutkowska at SRON <z.p.kostrzewa@sron.nl>
Z. Kostrzewa-Rutkowska (SRON/RU), S. Hodgkin, A. Delgado, D.L. Harrison, M.
van Leeuwen, G. Rixon, A. Yoldas (IoA Cambridge), D. Eappachen, P.G. Jonker
(SRON/RU) on behalf of Gaia Alerts team report the discovery of a transient
candidate within the probability skymap of S190425z (LIGO/VIRGO
Collaboration GCN 24168):
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Name TNSid Date [TCB] RaDeg DecDeg AlertMag URL
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Gaia19bpw AT2019eig 2019-04-29T15:15:23 9.92876 -31.99236 18.54
http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts/alert/Gaia19bpw/
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Acknowledgements: This work has made use of data from the European Space
Agency (ESA) mission Gaia (https://www.cosmos.esa.int/gaia), processed by
the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC,
https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dpac/consortium). Funding for the DPAC
has been provided by national institutions, in particular the institutions
participating in the Gaia Multilateral Agreement. ZKR, DE, and PGJ
acknowledge support from the European Research Council under ERC
Consolidator Grant agreement no 647208.