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GCN Circular 24366

Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190425z: Gaia Photometric Alerts transient candidates
Date
2019-05-02T13:22:02Z (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 transient
candidates 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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Gaia19bqf AT2019eiu 2019-05-01T09:54:18 50.39901 -52.89803  18.81

      http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts/alert/Gaia19bqf/

Gaia19bqe AT2019eit 2019-04-30T17:13:48 20.70267 -38.78741  18.76

      http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts/alert/Gaia19bqe/

Gaia19bqd AT2019eis 2019-04-30T15:41:20 32.80392 -48.59636  18.68

      http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts/alert/Gaia19bqd/


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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.
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