GCN Circular 25543
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190814bv: AT2019nxe and AT2019obc 10.4m GTC spectroscopy
Date
2019-08-29T12:19:30Z (5 years ago)
From
Alberto J. Castro-Tirado at IAA-CSIC <ajct@iaa.es>
A. J. Castro-Tirado (IAA-CSIC), A. F. Valeev (SAO-RAS), Y.-D. Hu (IAA-CSIC),
E. Fernandez-Garcia (IAA-CSIC), V. V. Sokolov (SAO-RAS), I. Carrasco and
A. Castellon (UMA), D. L. Tucker (Fermilab), M. Soares-Santos (Brandeis U)
and S. Geier (GRANTECAN, IAC, ULL), on behalf of a larger collaboration,
report:
Following the detection of desgw-190814j (AT2019nxe) (Soares-Santos et al.,
GCNC 25425) and desgw-190814q (AT2019obc) (Soares-Santos et al., GCNC 25438 )
within the error area of the GW event S190814bv (LVC, GCNC 25324), we obtained
imaging and optical spectra covering the range 5100-10000 A with the 10.4m GTC
telescope equipped with OSIRIS in La Palma (Spain) starting on Aug 23, 02:10 UT.
AT2019nxe is located 1.8 arcsec away from the center of the host galaxy and on
Aug 23, 02:15 UT the magnitude was measured to be r = 20.39 +/- 0.07. The spectrum
(broad lines) is consistent with a SNIa near the maximum at the nearby host galaxy
redshift (z = 0.0777 +/- 0.0005, based on the narrow emission lines from the galaxy).
AT2019obc is located 1.8 arcsec away from the center of the host galaxy. Cross-
correlating the spectrum (broad lines) with supernova template spectra in SNID
(Blondin & Tonry, 2007), we find a good match to the spectra of SNIa at few days
post maximum at a redshift of 0.216 +/- 0.005.
Therefore we consider that both AT2019nxe and AT2019obc are unrelated to the GW
event S190814bv.