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GCN Circular 33833

Subject
LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S230518h: GECKO tiling observations with KMTNet
Date
2023-05-20T13:40:33Z (2 years ago)
From
Gregory Paek at Seoul National University <gregorypaek94@gmail.com>
Gregory S.-H. Paek, Myungshin Im, Mankeun Jeong, Seo-Won Chang, Hyeonho
Choi, Sophia Kim, Elahe Khalouei (SNU/SNU ARC), and Chung-Uk Lee (KASI), on behalf of the GECKO Team

We report the optical observations conducted with the KMTNet telescopes of the 90 % localization area of of the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA gravitational-wave event, S230518h (The LVK Collaboration, GCN 33816). The KMTNet is a system made of three 1.6-meter class telescopes each at SAAO in South Africa, CTIO in Chile, and SSO in Australia. The KMTNet field of view of a single pointing covers a ~2 deg by 2 deg area.

The KMTNet observation started at 2023-05-18 17:31 (UT) or about 4.53 hrs
after the GW alert, and we took a series of R-band images for 2*120sec per field. As a result, we covered 59 tiles (~230 deg^2) within the localization area. The preliminary depths of these images are 22 magnitudes for a 5-sigma detection of point sources.

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t-t0[day]  DATE-OBS[UTC]       OBSERVAT RA           DEC          FILTER
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0.189      2023-05-18T17:31:36 SAAO     07:07:21.280 -31:59:59.00 R
0.194      2023-05-18T17:37:50 SAAO     07:10:00.030 -37:59:59.90 R
0.198      2023-05-18T17:44:29 SAAO     07:08:06.490 -35:59:59.80 R
0.203      2023-05-18T17:51:32 SAAO     08:11:42.420 -77:59:59.90 R
0.207      2023-05-18T17:57:52 SAAO     08:13:42.860 -79:59:59.80 R
0.212      2023-05-18T18:03:48 SAAO     07:43:43.690 -71:59:59.80 R
0.216      2023-05-18T18:09:58 SAAO     07:38:10.850 -83:59:59.80 R
0.220      2023-05-18T18:16:06 SAAO     07:45:13.770 -69:59:59.80 R
0.225      2023-05-18T18:22:25 SAAO     08:16:33.060 -81:59:59.70 R
0.229      2023-05-18T18:28:44 SAAO     08:10:12.780 -75:59:59.80 R
0.233      2023-05-18T18:35:04 SAAO     08:06:45.600 -67:59:59.90 R
0.238      2023-05-18T18:41:23 SAAO     07:39:34.490 -75:59:59.90 R
0.242      2023-05-18T18:47:36 SAAO     08:43:38.220 -83:59:59.90 R
0.428      2023-05-18T23:15:22 CTIO     07:09:08.320 -33:59:59.90 R
0.449      2023-05-18T23:46:11 CTIO     07:34:44.200 -52:00:00.00 R
0.454      2023-05-18T23:52:30 CTIO     07:42:23.090 -53:59:59.90 R
0.459      2023-05-18T23:59:28 CTIO     07:45:27.280 -58:00:00.00 R
0.463      2023-05-19T00:05:48 CTIO     07:36:34.750 -78:00:00.40 R
0.467      2023-05-19T00:12:00 CTIO     07:36:55.300 -56:00:00.00 R
0.476      2023-05-19T00:24:14 CTIO     08:08:07.970 -72:00:00.20 R
0.482      2023-05-19T00:33:33 CTIO     07:44:30.960 -60:00:00.00 R
0.487      2023-05-19T00:40:41 CTIO     07:24:42.400 -41:59:59.90 R
0.496      2023-05-19T00:53:27 CTIO     08:09:03.220 -74:00:00.20 R
0.498      2023-05-19T00:56:48 CTIO     07:36:35.100 -47:59:59.90 R
0.503      2023-05-19T01:03:04 CTIO     08:07:23.000 -70:00:00.10 R
0.508      2023-05-19T01:10:00 CTIO     07:47:31.840 -66:00:00.00 R
0.512      2023-05-19T01:16:57 CTIO     08:46:49.440 -78:00:00.40 R
0.517      2023-05-19T01:23:20 CTIO     08:40:50.860 -76:00:00.30 R
0.521      2023-05-19T01:29:31 CTIO     08:36:13.420 -74:00:00.20 R
0.525      2023-05-19T01:35:43 CTIO     08:32:32.370 -72:00:00.10 R
0.793      2023-05-19T08:01:18 SSO      07:46:28.480 -67:59:59.80 R
0.837      2023-05-19T09:04:10 SSO      07:17:50.270 -35:59:59.60 R
0.841      2023-05-19T09:10:46 SSO      07:29:01.780 -59:59:59.60 R
0.846      2023-05-19T09:17:26 SSO      07:41:52.780 -73:59:59.70 R
0.853      2023-05-19T09:26:53 SSO      07:55:06.650 -61:52:59.60 R
0.855      2023-05-19T09:29:57 SSO      08:06:13.800 -65:59:59.60 R
0.859      2023-05-19T09:36:25 SSO      08:29:32.030 -69:59:59.70 R
1.174      2023-05-19T17:09:20 SAAO     06:44:29.820 -19:08:55.90 R
1.178      2023-05-19T17:15:29 SAAO     06:21:24.190 -11:29:19.70 R
1.185      2023-05-19T17:25:58 SAAO     06:50:13.920 -24:53:37.90 R
1.188      2023-05-19T17:29:38 SAAO     06:45:31.020 -22:58:43.90 R
1.192      2023-05-19T17:35:49 SAAO     06:48:59.840 -26:48:31.90 R
1.197      2023-05-19T17:42:12 SAAO     06:57:31.010 -26:48:32.00 R
1.201      2023-05-19T17:48:32 SAAO     06:40:54.490 -21:03:49.90 R
1.206      2023-05-19T17:55:17 SAAO     06:56:23.010 -28:43:22.90 R
1.210      2023-05-19T18:01:27 SAAO     06:53:47.500 -22:58:43.80 R
1.220      2023-05-19T18:15:24 SAAO     06:59:32.900 -29:52:59.80 R
1.222      2023-05-19T18:19:12 SAAO     06:58:36.200 -24:53:37.80 R
1.226      2023-05-19T18:24:25 SAAO     07:05:03.610 -28:43:23.10 R
1.230      2023-05-19T18:29:49 SAAO     07:26:53.800 -81:59:59.90 R
1.234      2023-05-19T18:36:37 SAAO     07:27:16.320 -43:59:59.70 R
1.238      2023-05-19T18:42:34 SAAO     07:27:43.890 -49:59:59.90 R
1.245      2023-05-19T18:51:37 SAAO     07:39:49.890 -49:59:59.90 R
1.249      2023-05-19T18:57:44 SAAO     07:38:10.800 -61:59:59.80 R
1.252      2023-05-19T19:02:27 SAAO     07:50:46.190 -55:59:59.90 R
1.263      2023-05-19T19:17:49 SAAO     08:00:00.020 -59:59:59.90 R
1.270      2023-05-19T19:28:05 SAAO     08:56:23.500 -79:52:59.80 R
1.272      2023-05-19T19:31:16 SAAO     09:06:12.490 -81:59:59.90 R
1.277      2023-05-19T19:37:38 SAAO     09:49:05.440 -83:59:59.80 R

We have reference images for most of the observed fields from the KMTNet Synoptic Survey of Southern SKy (KS4) project. Detailed photometry and transient search analyses are underway.

Gravitational-wave EM Counterpart Korean Observatory (GECKO) is a network of 10+ 0.5m to 1m class telescopes worldwide. KMTNet is operated by the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute. We thank the KMTNet operators for their support for the KMTNet observations.
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