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GCN Circular 24654

Subject

LIGO/Virgo S190517h: Gaia Photometric Alerts transient candidate

Date

2019-05-23T16:10:14Z (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 S190517h (the LIGO Scientific
Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration, GCN 24570Not found
 
 
):

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Name      TNSid Date [TCB]          RaDeg DecDeg AlertMag URL

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Gaia19bws AT2019fudNot found
 
 
 2019-05-21T21:13:10 330.61045 -53.36877 18.88

      http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts/alert/Gaia19bws/

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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.