GCN Circular 24744
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190521r: Gaia Photometric Alerts transient candidate
Date
2019-06-04T16:31:05Z (5 years ago)
From
Deepak Eappachen at SRON Netherlands <d.eappachen@sron.nl>
Z. Kostrzewa-Rutkowska, D. Eappachen (SRON/RU), S. Hodgkin, A. Delgado,
D.L. Harrison, M.van Leeuwen, G. Rixon, A. Yoldas (IoA Cambridge), P.G. Jonker
(SRON/RU) on behalf of Gaia Alerts team report the discovery of a transient
candidate within the probability skymap of S190521r (LIGO/VIRGO
Collaboration GCN 24632):
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Name TNSid Date [TCB] RaDeg DecDeg AlertMag URL
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Gaia19cbb AT2019gui 2019-06-01T13:45:58 306.02533 32.05174 18.28
http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts/alert/Gaia19cbb/
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candidate QSO brightens by 0.7 mag, the source falls in the high confidence region (within the 2% contour of the bayestar map)
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.