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GCN Circular 25739

Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190910d: Gaia Photometric Alerts transient candidate
Date
2019-09-13T11:33:37Z (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 a transient candidate within the probability skymap of S190910d (the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration, GCN 25695):

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Name      TNSid     Date [TCB]          RaDeg     DecDeg    AlertMag URL
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Gaia19eba AT2019qam 2019-09-11T07:02:41 52.99630 -26.07598 18.14 http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts/alert/Gaia19eba/

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 acknowledges funding from the Netherlands Research School for Astronomy (NOVA). DE and PGJ acknowledge support from the European Research Council under ERC Consolidator Grant agreement no 647208.
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