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GCN Circular 24977

Subject

LIGO/Virgo S190630ag: Gaia Photometric Alerts transient candidate

Date

2019-07-04T14:53:39Z (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 S190630ag (LIGO/VIRGO
Collaboration GCN 24922Not found
 
 
):

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Name      	TNSid    	 Date [TCB]       		RaDeg     DecDeg    AlertMag URL
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Gaia19cua  AT2019kihNot found
 
 
  2019-07-02T10:26:22	219.41432   -54.98491  18.86
http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts/alert/Gaia19cua/
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Note: Hostless galactic plane transient

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.