GCN Circular 25223
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190727h: Gaia Photometric Alerts transient candidate
Date
2019-07-30T14:23:36Z (6 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 S190727h (LIGO/VIRGO
Collaboration GCN 25164):
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Name TNSid Date [TCB] RaDeg DecDeg AlertMag URL
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Gaia19dfl AT2019lyg 2019-07-27T17:34:08 112.70158 -56.68758 18.69
http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts/alert/Gaia19dfl/
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Note: blue transient observed within 12 hours from S190727h
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.