GCN Circular 36302
Subject
LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S240422ed: Further near-infrared observations with Subaru/MOIRCS by J-GEM Collaboration
Date
2024-04-25T14:19:57Z (7 months ago)
From
Tomoki Morokuma at Chiba Institute of Technology <tomoki.morokuma@p.chibakoudai.jp>
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Tomoki Morokuma (ARC/Chitech), Nozomu Tominaga, Kenshi Yanagisawa, Ichi Tanaka, Michitoshi Yoshida (NAOJ), Kazuya Matsubayashi (U. of Tokyo), Hiroshi Akitaya (ARC/Chitech), Ryusei Hamada, Daisuke Suzuki (Osaka U), Narikazu Higuchi, Mahito Sasada, Hibiki Seki, Ichiro Takahashi, Shigeaki Joshima, Haruna Hagio, Yoshiyuki Kubo (Tokyo Tech), Satoshi Honda, Jun Takahashi, Tomohito Ohshima (Univ. of Hyogo/NHAO), Koji Kawabata, Tatsuya Nakaoka (Hiroshima U.), Ryosuke Itoh (Ibara City), Mitsuru Kokubo, Natsuki Hayatsu, Hidekazu Hanayama (NAOJ), Takahiro Kanai, Yumiko Oasa (Saitama Univ.), Katsuhiro L. Murata, Kenta Taguchi, Kouji Ohta, Miho Kawabata, Keiichi Maeda (Kyoto U.), Takayoshi Kusune (Nagoya University), Yuu Niino (U. of Tokyo), Yuichiro Sekiguchi (Toho University), Masaomi Tanaka (Tohoku University), Yousuke Utsumi (SLAC) report on behalf of Japanese Collaboration for Gravitational-Wave Electro-Magnetic Follow-up (J-GEM) collaboration:
We conducted near-infrared (Y and Ks bands) imaging observations of 105 GLADE galaxies (Dalya, G. et al. 2018, MNRAS, 479, 2374) in the localization region of the gravitational wave event LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA S240422ed (GCN 36236) using the Multi-Object InfraRed Camera and Spectrograph (MOIRCS; 3.9x6.9 arcmin^2 field-of-view; Suzuki, R. et al. 2008, PASJ, 60, 1347; Ichikawa, T. et al. 2006, SPIE, 6269, 38) on the 8.2-m Subaru telescope. We started our observations at UT 2024-04-24 05:18, about 31.7 hours after the event. Most of these 105 GLADE galaxies were not observed with Subaru/MOIRCS on UT 2024-04-23 (GCN 36265). The list of the observed galaxies is shown in the table below. We also took Y and Ks band images for transient candidates reported in GCN 36263