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GCN Circular 25145

Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190718y: Gaia Photometric Alerts transient candidates
Date
2019-07-24T12:08:47Z (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
candidates within the probability skymap of S190718y (LIGO/VIRGO
Collaboration GCN 25087):

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Name      	TNSid    	 Date [TCB]       		RaDeg     DecDeg    AlertMag URL
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Gaia19dbi  AT2019lmu  2019-07-19T00:25:08	171.84914   -9.65161  17.52
http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts/alert/Gaia19dbi/

Gaia19dcs AT2019lqm  2019-07-20T21:35:41	347.69159   9.81984.  18.78
http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts/alert/Gaia19dcs/

Gaia19dct  AT2019lqn   2019-07-20T12:06:12       348.79552   -33.33181 18.76
http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts/alert/Gaia19dct/

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Notes:	 Gaia19dbi - candidate SN near galaxy SDSS J112723.74-093904.1
		 Gaia19dcs - SN candidate near faint SDSS galaxy
		 Gaia19dct - blue transient 10 arcsec from galaxy 2MASX J23151011-3319533

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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