GCN Circular 26577
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S191213g: Pan-STARRS monitoring shows PS19hgw (AT2019wxt) to be fading quickly
Date
2019-12-24T17:03:21Z (5 years ago)
From
Stephen Smartt at Queen's U/Belfast <s.smartt@qub.ac.uk>
M. E. Huber, (IfA) S. J. Smartt, O. McBrien, (QUB) K.C. Chambers
A.S.B. Schultz (IfA), K. W. Smith, D. R. Young, J. Gillanders. S.
Srivastav, P. Clark, D. O'Neill, M. Fulton, S. McLaughlin (QUB), T. de
Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, C.C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier , R. J.
Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, Univ. Hawaii), A. Rest (STScI), C. Stubbs
(Harvard), T.-W. Chen (Stockholm)
In McBrien et al. (GCN 26485) we reported the Pan-STARRS discovery of
the intrinsically faint optical transient PS19hgw (AT2019wxt) in the
80% probability contour of the compact binary merger event S191213g
(The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration, GCN
26402).
Spectroscopic follow-up by Izzo et al. (GCN 26491), Srivastav and
Smartt (GCN 26493