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GCN Circular 25716

Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190901ap: Gaia Photometric Alerts transient candidates
Date
2019-09-10T13:38:57Z (5 years ago)
From
Zuzanna Kostrzewa-Rutkowska at SRON <z.p.kostrzewa@sron.nl>
Z. Kostrzewa-Rutkowska (Leiden Observatory), S. Hodgkin, A. Delgado, D.L. Harrison, M. van Leeuwen, G. Rixon, A. Yoldas (IoA Cambridge), D. Eappachen, P.G. Jonker (SRON/RU) on behalf of Gaia Alerts team report the discovery of transient candidates within the probability skymap of S190901ap (the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration, GCN 25606):

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Name      TNSid Date [TCB]          RaDeg DecDeg AlertMag URL
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Gaia19dzv AT2019pwe 2019-09-08T13:35:59 20.00637 -51.06273 18.85 http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts/alert/Gaia19dzv/
Gaia19dzi AT2019piw 2019-09-07T18:33:54 79.57534 -19.22286 18.17 http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts/alert/Gaia19dzi/


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. DE and PGJ acknowledge support from the European Research Council under ERC Consolidator Grant agreement no 647208.
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