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GCN Circular 25349

Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190814bv: No counterpart candidates in TOROS observations
Date
2019-08-15T20:02:12Z (5 years ago)
From
Richard Camuccio at TOROS <rcamuccio@gmail.com>
Mario Diaz (UTRGV/CGWA), Diego Garcia Lambas (IATE), Lucas Macri (TAMU),
Jose Luis Nilo Castellon (Univ La Serena), Omar Lopez-Cruz (UNAM)

Richard Camuccio (UTRGV/CGWA), Elizabeth Caputa (Missouri S&T), Wendy
Mendoza (UTRGV/CGWA) are reporting on behalf of the TOROS collaboration.

We report the following targeted observations for S190814bv conducted by
the Cristina Torres Memorial Observatory (CTMO) in Brownsville, Texas:

HyperLEDA 787700: RA: 12.874431 deg Dec: -24.642494 deg
HyperLEDA 3235460: RA: 13.3533 deg Dec: -25.1578 deg
HyperLEDA 3235474: RA: 13.2654 deg Dec: -25.1785 deg
HyperLEDA 3235463: RA: 13.3238 deg Dec: -25.1856 deg
HyperLEDA 777629: RA: 12.8241 deg Dec: -25.55379 deg
HyperLEDA 788830: RA: 13.490571 deg Dec: -24.543142 deg
ESO474-035: RA: 13.173257 deg Dec: -25.733852 deg
HyperLEDA 3235467: RA: 13.3267 deg Dec: -25.6538 deg
HyperLEDA 3235506: RA: 12.5911 deg Dec: -25.0564 deg
HyperLEDA 786999: RA: 13.269273 deg Dec: -24.704401 deg

Observations were conducted on 2019-08-15 from 07:00 to 09:00 UT using the
CTMO CDK17 optical astrograph with an Apogee Alta F16M CCD. Fields are 43
arcminutes FOV, 2x2 binning, unfiltered, median-stacked 60-sec exposures (5
images per series). Source search is ongoing and we will report on any
positive detections.
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