LIGO/Virgo S190510g
GCN Circular 24862
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190510g: Swift UVOT - no new counterpart candidates identified
Date
2019-06-20T13:54:26Z (6 years ago)
From
Paul Kuin at MSSL <npkuin@gmail.com>
N. P. M. Kuin (UCL-MSSL), A. A. Breeveld (MSSL-UCL), C. Gronwall (PSU),
F. E. Marshall (NASA/GSFC), S. R. Oates (Uni. of Warwick), M.J. Page
(UCL-MSSL),
M. de Pasquale (Istambul U), M. H. Siegel (PSU), A. D'Ai (INAF-IASFPA),
P. D'Avanzo (INAF-OAB), S. D. Barthelmy (NASA/GSFC), A. P. Beardmore (U.
Leicester),
D. N. Burrows (PSU), S. Campana (INAF-OAB), S. B. Cenko (NASA/GSFC),
G. Cusumano (INAF-IASF PA), V. D'Elia(ASDC), P. A. Evans (U. Leicester),
P. Giommi (ASI), D. Hartmann (Clemson U.), J. A. Kennea (PSU),
H. A. Krimm (NSF), A. Y. Lien (GSFC/UMBC), D. B. Malesani (DTU Space),
A. Melandri (INAF-OAB), J. A. Nousek (PSU), P. T. O'Brien (U. Leicester),
J. P. Osborne (U. Leicester), C. Pagani (U. Leicester), K. L. Page
(U.Leicester),
D.M. Palmer (LANL), M. Perri (ASDC), J. L. Racusin (NASA/GSFC), T. Sakamoto
(AGU),
B. Sbarufatti (INAF-OAB/PSU), G. Tagliaferri (INAF-OAB), A. Tohuvavohu
(PSU),
and E. Troja (NASA/GSFC/UMCP) report on behalf of the Swift team:
Swift UVOT instrument started follow up observations of LVC event S190510g
121 minutes after the event until just over 3 days later, observing 977
fields
in the highest probability region (Evans et al., GCN Circ. No. 24541).
The UVOT approach for searching for the ultraviolet-optical counterpart has
been described in Kuin et al. (GCN Circ. No. 24767). The limiting magnitude
can vary but typically is 18.6th magnitude (Vega). The automated UVOT
processing
found 2836 galaxies using the GLADE catalog and flagged 121 counterpart
candidates. Human inspection of these 121 candidates found no credible
optical-ultraviolet source for the event, but 105 out of the 121 candidates
were due to an unstable attitude or due to image artifacts from very bright
sources. Neither did further inspection of the images of the galaxies lead
to a candidate missed by the automated processing.
GCN Circular 24544
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190510g: Gaia Photometric Alerts transient candidate
Date
2019-05-14T22:00:26Z (6 years ago)
From
Zuzanna Kostrzewa-Rutkowska at SRON <z.p.kostrzewa@sron.nl>
Z. Kostrzewa-Rutkowska (SRON/RU), 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 S190510g (the LIGO Scientific
Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration, GCN 24442):
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Name TNSid Date [TCB] RaDeg DecDeg AlertMag URL
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Gaia19btm AT2019fhw 2019-05-11T18:20:30 92.78350 -18.11934 18.36
http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts/alert/Gaia19btm/
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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, DE, and PGJ
acknowledge support from the European Research Council under ERC
Consolidator Grant agreement no 647208.
GCN Circular 24541
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190510g: Swift-XRT observations and results
Date
2019-05-14T14:56:23Z (6 years ago)
From
Phil Evans at U of Leicester <pae9@leicester.ac.uk>
P.A. Evans (U. Leicester), J.A. Kennea (PSU), A. Tohuvavohu (PSU), S.D.
Barthelmy (NASA/GSFC), A.P. Beardmore (U. Leicester), A.A. Breeveld
(UCL-MSSL), D.N. Burrows (PSU), S. Campana (INAF-OAB), S.B. Cenko
(NASA/GSFC), G. Cusumano (INAF-IASF PA), A. D'Ai (INAF-IASFPA), P.
D'Avanzo (INAF-OAB), V.D'Elia(ASDC), S.W.K. Emery (UCL-MSSL), P. Giommi
(ASI), C. Gronwall (PSU), D. Hartmann (U. Clemson), H.A. Krimm
(CRESST/GSFC/USRA), N.P.M. Kuin (UCL-MSSL), A.Y. Lien (GSFC/UMBC), F.E.
Marshall (NASA/GSFC), A. Melandri (INAF-OAB), J.A. Nousek (PSU), S.R.
Oates (U. Warwick), P.T. O'Brien (U. Leicester), J.P. Osborne (U.
Leicester), C. Pagani (U. Leicester), K.L. Page (U.Leicester), D.M.
Palmer (LANL), M. Perri (ASDC), J.L. Racusin (NASA/GSFC), B. Sbarufatti
(INAF-OAB/PSU), M.H. Siegel (PSU), G. Tagliaferri (INAF-OAB), E. Troja
(NASA/GSFC/UMCP) report on behalf of the Swift team:
Swift has performed a series of 977 observations, covering 977 separate
locations within the LVC error region for the GW trigger S190510g
convolved with the 2MPZ catalogue (Bilicki et al. 2014, ApJS, 210, 9),
using 226 fields from the 'bayestar' GW localisation map and 751 fields
from the 'LALInference' GW localisation map. As these are 3D skymaps,
galaxy distances were taken into account in selecting which ones to
observe. The observations currently span from 7.2 ks to 270 ks after
the LVC trigger, and cover 76.9 sq degrees on the sky (corrected for
overlaps). This covers 58% of the probability in the 'LALInference'
skymap, and 67% after convolving with the 2MPZ galaxy catalogue, as
described by Evans et al., (2016, MNRAS, 462, 1591). Using the earlier
'bayestar' skymap our observations cover 10% of the probability (14%
when convolved).
We have detected 33 X-ray sources. Each source is assigned a rank of
1-4 which describes how likely it is to be related to the GW trigger,
with 1 being the most likely and 4 being the least likely. The ranks
are described at http://www.swift.ac.uk/ranks.php.
We have found:
* 0 sources of rank 1
* 0 sources of rank 2
* 5 sources of rank 3
* 28 sources of rank 4
Details of these sources can be viewed online via
http://www.swift.ac.uk/LVC/
For all GW triggers from O3 onwards, XRT results will appear on this
page, once human verification has taken place to remove spurious sources.
Additionally, our search serendipitously covered the locations of some
of the other reported candidates. In particular the location of
DG19fqqk/desgw-190510c (GCNs 24467, 24480) was covered 4 times. No XRT
source was found with a 3-sigma upper limit of 6.1 x 10^-2 ct/sec,
corresponding to a 0.3-10 keV flux of 2.6 x 10^-12 erg cm^-2 s^-1. The
location of DG19llhk (GCNs 24467) was covered 3 times with no detection
found, down to a 3-sigma upper limit of 6.4 x 10^-2 ct/sec,
corresponding to 2.8e-12 erg cm^-2 s^-1. Both flux conversions assume a
power-law spectrum with photon index=1.7 and absorption column NH=3 x
10^20 cm^-2.
This circular is an official product of the Swift-XRT team.
GCN Circular 24540
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190510g: DECam-GROWTH optical counterpart candidate DG19qcso
Date
2019-05-14T14:27:18Z (6 years ago)
From
Daniel Goldstein at Caltech <danny@caltech.edu>
Erik Kool (OKC), Daniel A. Goldstein (Caltech), and Igor Andreoni (Caltech) on behalf of the Global Relay of Observatories Watching Transients Happen (GROWTH) collaborations:
As part of the follow up effort described in Andreoni et al. (2019, GCN #24467) of the high-probability region of the LALInference skymap of gravitational wave source S190510g (LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration, GCN #24448) with the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), we report the detection of an additional optical counterpart candidate, DS19qcso. The transient was detected ~2��� offset to the N of the nucleus of its host galaxy through difference imaging using an automated pipeline, and appeared in g and r-band, but not in z-band. Coordinates and observed magnitudes (at jday 2458614.5) are as follows:
DS19qcso
Coordinates: 88.208631 -30.381382 (05:52:50.07 -30:22:53.0)
g mag: 21.57 (0.13)
r mag: 22.69 (0.21)
z mag: > 21.9
The host galaxy is identified as 2MASXi J0552500-302254, but no host redshift is available. From Pan-STARRS imaging, we measure the host galaxy to be 15������ across. Postage stamp images of the candidate can be viewed at the following link:
https://portal.nersc.gov/project/ptf/cutouts/DG19qcso.png
We thank the CTIO staff, Steve Heathcote, Kathy Vivas, Tim Abbott, for facilitating these Target of Opportunity observations.
GROWTH is a worldwide collaboration comprising Caltech, USA; IPAC, USA, WIS, Israel; OKC, Sweden; JSI/UMd, USA; U Washington, USA; DESY, Germany; MOST, Taiwan; UW Milwaukee, USA; LANL USA; Tokyo Tech, Japan; IIT-B, India; IIA, India; LJMU, UK; TTU USA and USyd, Australia. GROWTH acknowledges generous support of the NSF under PIRE Grant No 1545949. An optimized schedule was generated using the ToO marshal system (Coughlin et al. 2019). Alert filtering and follow-up co-ordination is being undertaken by the GROWTH marshal system (Kasliwal et al. 2019).
This research draws upon DECam data as distributed by the Science Data Archive at NOAO. NOAO is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. This project used data obtained with the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), which was constructed by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) collaboration.
This message may be cited.
GCN Circular 24535
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190510g: AT2019ezb and AT2019far 10.4m GTC spectroscopy
Date
2019-05-14T10:33:23Z (6 years ago)
From
Alberto J. Castro-Tirado at IAA-CSIC <ajct@iaa.es>
A. J. Castro-Tirado (IAA-CSIC), A. F. Valeev and V. V. Sokolov
(SAO-RAS), Y.-D. Hu, X.-Y. Li, A. Ayala, and E. Fernandez-Garcia
(IAA-CSIC), R. Sanchez-Ramirez (INAF-IAPS), A. Castellon (UMA) and G.
Gomez-Velarde (GRANTECAN, IAC, ULL), on behalf of a larger
collaboration, report:
Following the detection of AT2019ezb and AT2019far (Srivastav et al.,
GCNC 24517) within the error area of the GW event S190510g (LVC, GCNC
24442), we obtained optical spectra (900s) covering the range 3700-7500
A with the 10.4m GTC telescope equipped with OSIRIS in La Palma (Spain)
starting on May 13, 23:55 UT.
The AT2019ezb spectrum is consistent with a SNIc at the host galaxy
redshift (z=0.0712).
The AT2019far spectrum is consistent with a SNIIp at the host galaxy
redshift (z=0.0583).
Therefore both transients are unrelated to the GW event S190510g.
We acknowledge the excellent support from the GTC staff.
GCN Circular 24529
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190510g: Further KMTNet observation of DECam-GROWTH and DESGW candidates
Date
2019-05-14T02:54:34Z (6 years ago)
From
Myungshin Im at Seoul Nat U <mim@astro.snu.ac.kr>
Myungshin Im (SNU), Joonho Kim (SNU), Chung-Uk Lee (KASI), Seung-Lee Kim
(KASI), Gregory S. H. Paek (SNU), Gu Lim (SNU), Changsu Choi (SNU),
Sungyong Hwang (SNU), Bomi Park (SNU), Sophia Kim (SNU), Hyung Mok Lee
(KASI), on behalf of a larger collaboration
We report the results from further KMTNet observation of the optical
counterpart candidates from DECam-GROWTH and DESGW (Andreoni et al. GCN
24467; Annis et al. GCN 24474; Sores-Santos et al. GCN 24480) of the BNS
merger candidate event, S190510g (LIGO/Virgo GCN 24448). This is a
follow-up report of the KMTNet result (Im et al. GCN 24493), adding data
points taken after our earlier report. With the additional data, we now
have at least one day cadence of KMTNet data of all the objects enabling us
to determine their variability for 1 day or more using internally
consistent photometry. The list of the observed targets are given below,
along with preliminary R-band magnitudes. None of the candidates below
show significant fading (> 0.5 mag) over ~1 day. All of the candidates show
very slow (<0.2 mag) or no fading, consistent with them being supernovae.
We thank the KMTNet staffs for performing the observation.
::::::::::::::
desgw-190510a
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#Date_Obs MJD Mag Magerr Depth
2019-05-11T17:33:16 58614.73125 21.26 0.061 21.55
2019-05-11T23:30:03 58614.97917 21.27 0.034 22.10
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DG19bexl
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#Date_Obs MJD Mag Magerr Depth
2019-05-10T17:54:47 58613.74583 21.21 0.041 21.95
2019-05-11T16:57:13 58614.70625 21.50 0.094 21.21
2019-05-11T23:48:04 58614.99167 21.57 0.053 22.02
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DG19etsk
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#Date_Obs MJD Mag Magerr Depth
2019-05-10T16:57:54 58613.70625 20.87 0.048 21.57
2019-05-10T17:33:32 58613.73125 21.12 0.067 21.92
2019-05-10T17:33:32 58613.73125 20.92 0.046 21.92
2019-05-11T17:42:31 58614.73750 20.89 0.063 21.52
2019-05-11T23:54:11 58614.99583 20.88 0.066 21.97
::::::::::::::
DG19fqqk
::::::::::::::
#Date_Obs MJD Mag Magerr Depth
2019-05-10T18:08:23 58613.75556 20.58 0.042 21.53
2019-05-10T23:45:52 58613.98958 20.89 0.037 21.75
2019-05-11T17:36:25 58614.73333 20.72 0.043 21.85
2019-05-11T23:36:06 58614.98333 20.80 0.038 22.10
::::::::::::::
DG19lcnl
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#Date_Obs MJD Mag Magerr Depth
2019-05-10T23:33:34 58613.98125 19.92 0.040 21.48
2019-05-11T17:23:49 58614.72431 19.82 0.026 21.17
2019-05-11T23:24:10 58614.97500 19.85 0.037 22.08
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DG19llhk
::::::::::::::
#Date_Obs MJD Mag Magerr Depth
2019-05-10T17:08:10 58613.71389 21.24 0.042 21.61
2019-05-10T17:20:36 58613.72222 21.17 0.051 22.81
2019-05-11T08:33:29 58614.35625 99.00 99.000 20.95
2019-05-11T17:20:40 58614.72222 21.37 0.114 21.15
2019-05-11T23:18:08 58614.97083 21.25 0.049 22.04
::::::::::::::
DG19nanl
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#Date_Obs MJD Mag Magerr Depth
2019-05-10T23:33:34 58613.98125 20.42 0.035 21.44
2019-05-11T22:59:57 58614.95764 20.52 0.032 21.53
::::::::::::::
DG19nouo
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#Date_Obs MJD Mag Magerr Depth
2019-05-10T17:20:36 58613.72222 21.64 0.048 21.85
2019-05-10T23:21:17 58613.97292 21.51 0.052 22.04
2019-05-11T17:55:27 58614.74653 21.38 0.057 21.43
::::::::::::::
DG19oahn
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#Date_Obs MJD Mag Magerr Depth
2019-05-11T16:50:54 58614.70139 19.48 0.030 20.74
2019-05-11T23:42:11 58614.98750 19.58 0.033 22.02
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DG19ootl
::::::::::::::
#Date_Obs MJD Mag Magerr Depth
2019-05-10T23:33:34 58613.98125 21.51 0.068 21.49
2019-05-11T23:06:06 58614.96250 21.42 0.062 21.81
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DG19ukvo
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#Date_Obs MJD Mag Magerr Depth
2019-05-10T16:48:24 58613.70000 21.56 0.146 20.92
2019-05-11T17:49:08 58614.74236 21.71 0.082 21.58
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DG19yhhm
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#Date_Obs MJD Mag Magerr Depth
2019-05-10T17:20:36 58613.72222 20.43 0.042 21.67
2019-05-10T23:21:17 58613.97292 20.33 0.052 22.08
2019-05-11T23:12:03 58614.96667 20.35 0.041 21.87
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DG19zaxn
::::::::::::::
#Date_Obs MJD Mag Magerr Depth
2019-05-10T17:27:13 58613.72708 21.16 0.040 22.02
2019-05-11T18:01:33 58614.75069 21.13 0.047 21.53
GCN Circular 24517
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190510g: Pan-STARRS and ATLAS observations and candidates
Date
2019-05-13T11:31:11Z (6 years ago)
From
Stephen Smartt at Queen's U/Belfast <s.smartt@qub.ac.uk>
S. Srivastav, K. W. Smith, S. J. Smartt (QUB), K. Chambers, M. Huber,
T. de Boer, J. Bulger, J. Fairlamb, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier
A. Schultz, R. J. Wainscoat, M. Willman (IfA, Univ. Hawaii),
D. R. Young, O. McBrien, J. Gillanders. D. O'Neil, P. Clark, S. Sim
(QUB), L. Denneau, H. Flewelling, A. Heinze, J. Tonry, H. Weiland
(IfA, Univ. Hawaii), A. Rest (STScI), B. Stalder (LSST), C. Stubbs
(Harvard)
We report observations of the BAYESTAR skymap of the BNS event S190510g
(The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration, GCN
24442) with the Pan-STARRS1 telescope (Chambers et al. 2016,
arXiv:1612.05560C) and the ATLAS telescopes (Tonry et al. 2018, PASP
PASP, 13, 164505).
We acknowledge that is now a marginal candidate (LSC & VC, GCN 24489)
and note that we completed our scanning of the BAYESTAR skymap, before
the LALInference map was available (resulting in a final 4%
probability coverage).
For Pan-STARRS1 : images were taken in the PS1 w and i-bands (Tonry
et al. 2012, ApJ 750, 99) in the standard NEO search sequence. At each
pointing position a sequence of quads (4 x 45 sec) was taken. This
observing sequence ensures exactly the same pointing position for each
of the quads.
The PS1 images were processed with the IPP (Magnier et al. 2016,
arXiv:1612.05240) and difference images were produced using the
Pan-STARRS1 Science Consortium 3Pi images as reference
frames. Transient candidates were run through our standard filtering
procedures, combined with a machine learning algorithm (Wright et
al. 2015, MNRAS, 449, 451) and all candidates were
spatially cross-matched with known minor planets, and major star,
galaxy, AGN and multi-wavelength catalogues (as described in Smartt et
al. 2016, MNRAS, 462 4094).
For ATLAS, we observed with sequences of 4 x 30s, typically reaching
o ~ 19.5 in each pointing (e.g. Weiland et al. GCN 24107).
We covered the small probability region of the LalInference map (total
summed probability of 4%) at 13-14hrs (the 6hr region was not visible
from Hawaii). We began taking Pan-STARRS data at 2019-05-10 07:09
(UTC), ~4.2 hrs after the GW trigger. ATLAS started at a similar time.
No new extragalactic transient candidates were discovered with ATLAS
within the 90% contour (brighter than about o ~ 19.5)
In the PS1 data, the following 23 transients were found lying within
the 90% contour of the LALInference map. We give them 3 ranks :
Rank 1 candidates are plausibly within the distance range reported by
the LIGO-Virgo analysis (~130 Mpc < d < ~220 Mpc). This comes from
host galaxy association and their spectroscopic or photometric
redshifts.
Rank 2 candidates are not obviously associated with a catalogued
host galaxy.
Rank 3 candidates are probably associated with a galaxy outside the
distance range.
Name | PS Name | RA (J2000) | Dec (J2000) | Disc. MJD | Disc Mag | Notes
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Rank 1
AT2019ezb | PS19xv | 13 43 59.78 | +01 50 32.7 | 58613.30 | 20.50 i | (1)
AT2019far | PS19aaf | 14 17 22.53 | +05 01 08.7 | 58613.48 | 20.29 i | (2)
Rank 2
AT2019ezc | PS19yn | 13 24 04.80 | -09 02 05.8 | 58613.34 | 20.16 i |
AT2019eya | PS19yi | 13 27 23.56 | -07 01 41.2 | 58613.39 | 20.78 i |
AT2019fam | PS19yp | 13 39 00.66 | -04 28 30.7 | 58613.39 | 20.25 i |
AT2019eyg | PS19yz | 13 42 05.60 | -09 43 24.7 | 58613.35 | 20.60 i |
AT2019fal | PS19zf | 13 46 08.91 | -03 22 40.1 | 58613.39 | 20.92 i |
AT2019eyp | PS19zh | 14 05 46.51 | +03 25 21.4 | 58613.50 | 21.36 w |
AT2019eyu | PS19aaj | 14 06 15.69 | +03 45 58.4 | 58613.48 | 20.57 i |
Rank 3
AT2019exz | PS19yh | 13 17 59.93 | -04 36 33.5 | 58613.39 | 19.93 i | (3)
AT2019faa | PS19xz | 13 21 30.14 | +01 59 03.5 | 58613.30 | 21.02 i | (4)
AT2019ezy | PS19xx | 13 27 22.91 | +01 28 19.0 | 58613.30 | 20.11 i | (5)
AT2019fan | PS19yo | 13 28 01.32 | -03 47 08.3 | 58613.39 | 20.76 i | (6)
AT2019eyi | PS19xs | 13 31 45.46 | -00 04 26.5 | 58613.30 | 20.23 i | (7)
AT2019eza | PS19xr | 13 51 04.52 | +03 54 53.4 | 58613.30 | 20.42 i |
AT2019fae | PS19yd | 13 51 53.52 | +00 45 54.8 | 58613.30 | 20.68 i | (8)
AT2019fac | PS19yb | 13 53 05.69 | +08 16 45.3 | 58613.30 | 20.84 i | (9)
AT2019eyf | PS19yg | 13 58 13.27 | +05 13 28.2 | 58613.30 | 19.87 i |
AT2019eyv | PS19aah | 14 03 35.78 | +08 11 25.3 | 58613.48 | 21.14 i |
AT2019fbj | PS19abe | 14 05 22.17 | +06 35 48.7 | 58613.48 | 21.14 i |
AT2019eyn | PS19zk | 14 07 17.08 | +08 23 33.3 | 58613.48 | 20.49 i | (10)
AT2019ezl | PS19zx | 14 13 00.93 | +07 50 02.5 | 58613.48 | 20.09 i |
AT2019ezv | PS19aau | 14 17 39.18 | +02 08 39.1 | 58613.50 | 19.80 w | (11)
(1) Probable host is SDSS J134359.83+015034.4 at a spectroscopic z = 0.072 or D ~ 323 Mpc (NED), yielding an absolute i-band magnitude of ~-17.0 mag
(2) Probable host is SDSS J141300.92+075002.6 at a spectroscopic z = 0.058 or D ~ 259 Mpc (NED), yielding an absolute i-band magnitude of ~ -16.8
(3) Probable host is GALEXASC J131800.06-043633.9 at a spectroscopic z = 0.132 or D ~ 603 Mpc (NED)
(4) Probable host is SDSS J132130.22+015903.0 at a photometric z = 0.291 +/- 0.141 or D ~ 1431 Mpc (SDSS)
(5) Probable host is SDSS J132722.06+012818.6 at a photometric z = 0.068 +/- 0.012 or D ~ 308 Mpc (NED)
(6) Probable host is LCRS B132526.4-033142 at a spectroscopic z = 0.087 or D ~ 388 Mpc (NED)
(7) Probable host is SDSS J133145.14-000431.3 at a photometric z = 0.185 +/- 0.018 or D ~ 899 Mpc (SDSS)
(8) Probable host is 2MASX J13515347+0045515 at a spectroscopic z = 0.088 or D ~ 389 Mpc (NED)
(9) Probable host is SDSS J135153.50+004551.2 at a photometric z = 0.230 +/-0.151 or D ~ 1148 Mpc (SDSS)
(10) Probable host is 2MASX J14071678+0823347 at a spectroscopic z = 0.115 or D ~ 532 Mpc (NED)
(11) Probable host is SDSS J141738.94+020831.9 at a spectroscopic redshift of z = 0.129 or D ~ 584 Mpc (NED)
GCN Circular 24511
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190510g: Spectroscopic Classification of DECam-GROWTH and DES-GW Candidate DG19fqqk/desgw-190510c with Magellan
Date
2019-05-12T21:49:07Z (6 years ago)
From
Sebastian Gomez at Harvard U <sgomez@cfa.harvard.edu>
S. Gomez (Harvard), P. S. Cowperthwaite (Carnegie), G. Hosseinzadeh (Harvard), E. Berger (Harvard), P. K. Blanchard (Harvard), M. R. Drout (Carnegie/U. Toronto), T. Eftekhari (Harvard), M. Nicholl (Edinburgh), L. Patton (Harvard), A. L. Piro (Carnegie), V. A. Villar (Harvard), P.K.G. Williams (Harvard), P. Goudfrooij (STScI), and T. Puzia (PUC, Chile)
We report on spectroscopic observations conducted with the IMACS Spectrograph on the 6.5m Magellan-Baade telescope of a candidate optical counterpart to the gravitational wave event S190510g (The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration, GCN 24442). The counterpart was identified during difference image processing of public DECam observations (Andreoni et al. GCN 24443, Andreoni et al. GCN 24467, Soares-Santos et al. GCN 24480).
Lists of promising counterparts were identified on the basis of factors such as their brightness, colors, and possible host galaxy association. We were able to obtain deep spectroscopy of DG19fqqk/desgw-190510c, which is an interesting source as it was flagged by a light curve classifier trained to identify kilonovae (KN-Classify, GCN 24480).
Target | Reference | Classification
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DG19fqqk/desgw-190510c | GCN 24467, GCN 24480 | Type II (phase = +6 days)
DG19fqqk/desgw-190510c shows a broad feature consistent with H-alpha at a redshift of 0.06 and template matching using Superfit (Howell et al. 2005, ApJ, 634, 1190) suggests a good match to a Type II SNe approximately one week after peak brightness. This candidate was also observed by KMTNet (GCN #24493) and showed no significant fading over ~1 day.
We conclude that the transient is not associated with the gravitational wave event S190510g.
We thank Paul Goudfrooij and Thomas Puzia for taking these observations.
GCN Circular 24509
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190510g: MASTER OT detection inside PGC087378 galaxy
Date
2019-05-12T20:26:08Z (6 years ago)
From
Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs <lipunov@xray.sai.msu.ru>
V. Lipunov, N.Tyurina, E. Gorbovskoy, V.Kornilov, D.Vlasenko,
P.Balanutsa,D.Vlasenko, V.Vladimirov, D.Zimnukhov, A.Kuznetsov, P.Balanutsa,
I.Gorbunov, A. Chasovnikov, F.Balakin, V.Grinshpun, T.Pogrosheva (Lomonosov
Moscow State University, SAI, Physics Department),
R. Rebolo, M. Serra, N. Lodieu, G. Israelian, L. Suarez-Andres (The Instituto
de Astrofisica de Canarias),
D. Buckley (South African Astronomical Observatory),
A. Tlatov, V.Senik, A.V. Parhomenko, D. Dormidontov (Kislovodsk Solar Station
of the Pulkovo Observatory),
R. Podesta, C. Lopez, C.Francile, F. Podesta (Observatorio Astronomico Felix
Aguilar OAFA, San Juan National University),
H.Levato (Instituto de Ciencias Astronomicas, de la Tierra y del Espacio
ICATE,SJNU)
O. Gress, N.M. Budnev, O.Ershova (Applied Physics Institute, Irkutsk Stat
University),
V. Yurkov, A. Gabovich, Yu. Sergienko, D. Kobcev (Blagoveschensk EducationState
University),
MASTER OT J135130.87-525534.4 (2019fcc) - OT inside PGC087378
MASTER-OAFA auto-detection system ( <A
HREF="http://www.hindawi.com/journals/aa/2010/349171/">Lipunov et al.,
"MASTER Global Robotic Net",
Advances in Astronomy, 2010, 30L</A> ) discovered OT source at (RA, Dec) =
13h 51m 30.87s -52d 55m 34.4s on 2019-05-12.29047 UT.
The OT unfiltered magnitude is ~ 17m (mlim=18.4m).
The OT is seen in 2 images. There is no minor planet at this place.
We have reference image without OT on 2016-07-06.02547 UT with magnitude
limit in 'clear' filter 19.0m.
THe OT offset from center of the PGC087378 galaxy is 2.1E 11S.
The distance is about ~50Mpc.
The same transient we see 12 hours after trigger time in MASTER-SAAO
database.
Folow up observations are required.
GCN Circular 24496
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190510g: DOAO Observation
Date
2019-05-12T04:52:23Z (6 years ago)
From
Gregory SungHak Paek at SNU <shpaek@astro.snu.ac.kr>
Gregory S.H. Paek, Myungshin Im (CEOU/SNU), Taewoo Kim, and Wonseok Kang
(DOAO) on behalf of a larger collaboration
We observed 12 host galaxy candidates with the 1.0-m telescope at the
Deokheung Optical Astronomy Observatorythe in the 90% updated localization
area of S190510g, detected by LIGO/Virgo (GCN #24442).
The observation started at 2019-05-10 14:35:16, and 9 images were taken in
R-band with 120 sec exposure time for each fields. No obvious transient has
been identified to a preliminary 3-sigma depth of R=21.5 AB mag. The list
of the inspected targets in the observed fields is given below.
FIELD date-obs[UT] UL[AB] NOTE
G0028316 2019-05-10 15:03:14 20.359 PGC159415, PGC1050569
G0031507 2019-05-10 15:47:31 21.881 PGC48754, PGC48717
G0450408 2019-05-10 14:43:43 21.432 PGC95645, PGC1109881, NGC5192,
PGC1104597
G0550129 2019-05-10 15:57:40 21.791 PGC158865, PGC3105750, PGC1068483
G0595818 2019-05-10 15:22:47 21.829 PGC0595818
GCN Circular 24495
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190510g: CALET Observations
Date
2019-05-12T03:01:00Z (6 years ago)
From
Yuta Kawakubo at Louisiana State U./CALET <kawakubo1@lsu.edu>
P. S. Marrocchesi (U of Siena), A. Yoshida, T. Sakamoto,
V. Pal'shin, S. Sugita (AGU), Y. Kawakubo (LSU),
K. Yamaoka (Nagoya U), S. Nakahira (RIKEN), Y. Asaoka,
S. Ozawa, S. Torii (Waseda U), Y. Shimizu,
T. Tamura (Kanagawa U), N. Cannady (GSFC/UMBC),
M. L. Cherry (LSU), S. Ricciarini (U of Florence),
and the CALET collaboration:
The CALET Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (CGBM) was operating at the
trigger time of S190510g T0=2019/05/10 02:59:39.292 UT (The LIGO
Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, GCN Circ. 24442,
24448 and 24462).
No CGBM on-board trigger occurred around the event time. Based
on the LIGO-Virgo localization sky map, most of the part of the high
probability area was outside of the field-of-view of CGBM. The
summed LIGO probabilities inside the HXM and the SGM field of
view are 2% and 7% (and 84% credible region of the updated
localization map were Earth-occulted). The HXM and SGM field of
views were centered at RA=298.7 deg, Dec = 60.7 deg and
RA=295.7 deg, Dec=50.8 deg at T0.
Based on the analysis of the light curve data with 0.125 sec
time resolution from T0-60 sec to T0+60 sec, we found no
significant excess around the trigger time in either the
HXM (7-3000 keV) or the SGM (40 keV -28 MeV) data.
The CALET Calorimeter (CAL) was operating in high energy trigger
mode at the trigger time of S190510g. Using CAL data, we have
searched for gamma-ray events in the 10-100 GeV band from
-60 sec to +60 sec from the GW trigger time and found no
candidates. There is no significant overlap with the LVC location
probability map. The CAL FOV was centered at RA=295.7 deg,
Dec=50.8 deg at T0.
GCN Circular 24493
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190510g: KMTNet observation of DECam-GROWTH and DESGW candidates
Date
2019-05-11T23:37:09Z (6 years ago)
From
Myungshin Im at Seoul Nat U <mim@astro.snu.ac.kr>
Myungshin Im (SNU), Joonho Kim (SNU), Chung-Uk Lee (KASI), Seung-Lee Kim
(KASI), Gregory S. H. Paek (SNU), Gu Lim (SNU), Changsu Choi (SNU),
Sungyong Hwang (SNU), Bomi Park (SNU), Sophia Kim (SNU), Hyung Mok Lee
(KASI), on behalf of a larger collaboration
With KMTNet, we observed the optical counterpart candidates from
DECam-GROWTH and DESGW (Andreoni et al. GCN 24467; Annis et al. GCN 24474;
Sores-Santos et al. GCN 24480) of the BNS merger candidate event, S190510g
(LIGO/Virgo GCN 24448). The observation took place at the KMTNet South
Africa (SAAO), Chile (CTIO), and Australia (SSO) stations. The list of the
observed targets are given below, along with preliminary R-band
magnitudes. Note that the errors do not include systematic errors due to
image subtraction. The error associated with the image subtraction should
be considered to be 0.1-0.2 mag at this moment. None of the candidates
below show significant fading (> 0.5 mag) over ~1 day. All of the
candidates show very slow or no fading, consistent with them being
supernovae. Further observation is ongoing.
We thank the KMTNet staffs for performing the observation.
Object name UT R(mag) Rerr
desgw-190510a 2019-05-11T17:33:16 21.26 0.07
DG19bexl 2019-05-10T17:54:47 21.21 0.04
2019-05-11T16:57:13 21.49 0.09
DG19etsk 2019-05-10T17:33:32 20.92 0.10
DG19fqqk 2019-05-10T18:08:23 20.57 0.04
(desgw-190510c) 2019-05-10T23:45:52 20.88 0.04
2019-05-11T17:36:25 20.71 0.04
DG19lcnl 2019-05-10T23:33:34 19.92 0.04
2019-05-11T17:23:49 19.82 0.03
DG19llhk 2019-05-10T17:08:10 21.23 0.04
2019-05-10T17:20:36 21.17 0.05
2019-05-11T17:20:40 21.37 0.11
DG19nanl 2019-05-10T23:33:34 20.43 0.04
DG19nouo 2019-05-10T17:20:36 21.64 0.05
2019-05-10T23:21:17 21.51 0.05
DG19oahn 2019-05-11T16:50:54 19.48 0.03
DG19ootl 2019-05-10T23:33:34 21.51 0.07
DG19ukvo 2019-05-10T16:48:24 21.56 0.14
DG19yhhm 2019-05-10T17:20:36 20.43 0.04
2019-05-10T23:21:17 20.33 0.05
DG19zaxn 2019-05-10T17:27:13 21.16 0.04
GCN Circular 24491
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190510g: OT MASTER142812.05-013615.2 retraction as the kilonova candidate in GCN 24490
Date
2019-05-11T20:46:28Z (6 years ago)
From
Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs <lipunov@xray.sai.msu.ru>
V. Lipunov,(Lomonosov Moscow State University, SAI, Physics Department),
I am sorry.
The OT MASTER142812.05-013615.2 is the known SN 2019dde and can not
connected with LIGO/Virgo S190510g .
https://wis-tns.weizmann.ac.il/object/2019dde
GCN Circular 24490
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190510g: MASTER OT detection inside low surface brightness galaxy
Date
2019-05-11T20:28:33Z (6 years ago)
From
Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs <lipunov@xray.sai.msu.ru>
V. Lipunov, N.Tyurina, E. Gorbovskoy, V.Kornilov, D.Vlasenko,
P.Balanutsa,D.Vlasenko, V.Vladimirov, D.Zimnukhov, A.Kuznetsov, P.Balanutsa,
I.Gorbunov, A. Chasovnikov, F.Balakin, V.Grinshpun, T.Pogrosheva (Lomonosov
Moscow State University, SAI, Physics Department),
R. Rebolo, M. Serra, N. Lodieu, G. Israelian, L. Suarez-Andres (The
Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias),
D. Buckley (South African Astronomical Observatory),
A. Tlatov, V.Senik, A.V. Parhomenko, D. Dormidontov (Kislovodsk Solar Station
of the Pulkovo Observatory),
R. Podesta, C. Lopez, C.Francile, F. Podesta (Observatorio Astronomico Felix
Aguilar OAFA, San Juan National University),
H.Levato (Instituto de Ciencias Astronomicas, de la Tierra y del Espacio
ICATE,SJNU)
O. Gress, N.M. Budnev, O.Ershova (Applied Physics Institute, Irkutsk Stat
University),
V. Yurkov, A. Gabovich, Yu. Sergienko, D. Kobcev (Blagoveschensk EducationState
University),
OT MASTER142812.05-013615.2 discovery.
MASTER-IAC auto-detection system discovered OT source at (RA, Dec) = 14h
28m 12.05s -01d 36m 15.2s on 2019-05-11.03821 UT.
The OT unfiltered magnitude is 17.6m (limit 20.0m).
The OT is seen in 2 images. There is no minor planet at this place.
We have reference image without OT on 2016-03-09.04372 UT with unfiltered
magnitude limit 20.3m.
There is low surface brightness galaxy (from HSC-SSP) with 2.7 arcsec
offset at 14 28 12.0144 -01 36 17.316
This OT is good candidate for Gravitational Waves counterpart.
Spectral observations are required.
The discovery and reference images are available at:
http://master.sai.msu.ru/static/OT/142812.05-013615.2.png
Folow up observations are required.
GCN Circular 24489
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190510g: Update on candidate significance
Date
2019-05-11T20:19:22Z (6 years ago)
From
Shasvath J. Kapadia at U. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee <kapadia@uwm.edu>
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration report:
We have conducted subsequent analysis of data around the time of S190510g
including LIGO and Virgo data collected in the 24 hour period after the
event. The resulting re-estimate of the background model yields a
FAR (False Alarm Rate) of 1 in 3.6 years compared to 1 in 37 years initially
reported in GCN 24442.
Using the updated background model, the classification of the event,
in order of descending probability, is estimated to be:
Terrestrial (58%), BNS (42%), NSBH (<1%), BBH (<1%), or MassGap (<1%).
Further analysis of the event is ongoing. Updates will be provided
as and when available.
For further information about analysis methodology and the contents of
this alert, refer to the LIGO/Virgo Public Alerts User Guide
<https://emfollow.docs.ligo.org/userguide/>.
GCN Circular 24488
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190510g: Las Cumbres Observatory Galaxy Targeted Counterpart Search
Date
2019-05-11T17:50:24Z (6 years ago)
From
Iair Arcavi at Tel Aviv University <arcavi@tauex.tau.ac.il>
Iair Arcavi (Tel Aviv University), D. Andrew Howell (LCO/UCSB), Daichi Hiramatsu (LCO/UCSB), Jamison Burke (LCO/UCSB), Curtis McCully (LCO), Craig Pellegrino (LCO/UCSB), Paul Groot (Radboud University), on behalf of the Las Cumbres GW Follow-up Collaboration
We report 300s g- and i-band images of the following galaxies (obtained from the GLADE 2.3 catalog; Dalya et al. 2018, MNRAS, 479, 2374) in the LIGO/Virgo S190510g localization region (Chu et al, GCN 24448) with the Las Cumbres Observatory 1m telescopes at the SAAO, South Africa and the CTIO, Chile. We find no significant counterpart candidates from visual inspection of the images.
Name GLADE-ID RA Dec UT FILTER Approx Lim-mag
2MASS 05482759-3258380 4768 87.11500 -32.9772 2019-05-1017:25:56 g 22.66
2MASS 05482759-3258380 4768 87.11500 -32.9772 2019-05-1017:31:38 i 22.09
2MASS 05490223-3129287 30042 87.25932 -31.4913 2019-05-1016:47:07 g 21.83
2MASS 05490223-3129287 30042 87.25932 -31.4913 2019-05-1016:52:48 i 21.56
2MASS 05500408-3034504 110676 87.51703 -30.5807 2019-05-1016:59:54 g 22.49
2MASS 05500408-3034504 110676 87.51703 -30.5807 2019-05-1017:05:36 i 23.00
2MASS 05502872-3344293 26624 87.61970 -33.7415 2019-05-1023:22:16 g 22.38
2MASS 05502872-3344293 26624 87.61970 -33.7415 2019-05-1023:27:57 i 21.69
2MASS 05504985-3144266 19812 87.70773 -31.7407 2019-05-1017:12:54 g 22.69
2MASS 05504985-3144266 19812 87.70773 -31.7407 2019-05-1017:18:36 i 21.87
2MASS 05505599-3447027 7534 87.73330 -34.7841 2019-05-1017:12:54 g 22.87
2MASS 05505599-3447027 7534 87.73330 -34.7841 2019-05-1017:18:36 i 21.83
2MASS 05511621-3106167 9683 87.81755 -31.1046 2019-05-1016:47:01 g 21.69
2MASS 05511621-3106167 9683 87.81755 -31.1046 2019-05-1016:52:42 i 21.31
2MASS 05514992-3144460 13462 87.95801 -31.7461 2019-05-1023:35:19 g 22.38
2MASS 05514992-3144460 13462 87.95801 -31.7461 2019-05-1023:41:00 i 21.63
2MASS 05574070-3456018 22967 89.41962 -34.9338 2019-05-1023:48:21 g 22.45
2MASS 05574070-3456018 22967 89.41962 -34.9338 2019-05-1023:54:02 i 21.72
2MASS 06011509-3132255 21382 90.31288 -31.5404 2019-05-1017:38:57 g 23.60
2MASS 06011509-3132255 21382 90.31288 -31.5404 2019-05-1017:44:46 i 21.85
2MASS 06024073-3420093 130705 90.66974 -34.3359 2019-05-1017:38:58 g 22.64
2MASS 06024073-3420093 130705 90.66974 -34.3359 2019-05-1017:44:40 i 22.21
2MASS 06033989-3208521 5089 90.91624 -32.1478 2019-05-1017:25:56 g 22.41
2MASS 06033989-3208521 5089 90.91624 -32.1478 2019-05-1017:31:38 i 21.70
2MASS 06055976-3250371 9684 91.49903 -32.8437 2019-05-1023:10:04 g 22.31
2MASS 06055976-3250371 9684 91.49903 -32.8437 2019-05-1023:15:45 i 21.35
2MASS 06064749-3348522 13891 91.69790 -33.8145 2019-05-1017:52:00 g 21.81
2MASS 06064749-3348522 13891 91.69790 -33.8145 2019-05-1017:53:58 g 22.59
2MASS 06064749-3348522 13891 91.69790 -33.8145 2019-05-1017:59:40 i 22.06
2MASS 06084611-3354584 14569 92.19215 -33.9162 2019-05-1022:55:30 g 21.58
2MASS 06084611-3354584 14569 92.19215 -33.9162 2019-05-1023:01:11 i 21.23
2MASS 06100073-3338309 136310 92.50307 -33.6419 2019-05-1016:59:54 g 22.59
2MASS 06100073-3338309 136310 92.50307 -33.6419 2019-05-1017:05:36 i 21.93
2MASS 06105136-3352566 5855 92.71404 -33.8824 2019-05-1017:52:39 g 22.49
2MASS 06105136-3352566 5855 92.71404 -33.8824 2019-05-1017:58:20 i 21.95
GCN Circular 24487
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190510g: Non-detection of the OT in PGC 094244
Date
2019-05-11T17:20:02Z (6 years ago)
From
Albert Kong at NTHU <akhkong@gmail.com>
Po-Chieh Yu (NCU), Han-Jie Tan (NCU), Albert Kong (NTHU), Atharva Sunil
Patil (NCU), Chow-Choong Ngeow (NCU), Wing-Huen Ip (NCU), on behalf of the
Global Relay of Observatories Watching Transients Happen (GROWTH)
collaboration
We observed the possible OT in PGC 094244 (GCN #24470, Lipunov et al.) at
2019-05-11 12:50:12 UT using the Lulin One-meter Telescope (LOT) in Taiwan.
We obtained g-, r-, i-band images with 300s exposure time, and the
transient is not detected in all images. The r-band limiting magnitude is
about 21 by comparing with Pan-STARRS images. This is consistent with the
results of Tucker et al. (GCN #24477).
We thank the staff in Lulin Observatory for helping the observations.
GCN Circular 24485
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190510g: GRAWITA REM and Loiano optical observations
Date
2019-05-11T15:55:17Z (6 years ago)
From
Aniello Grado at INAF-OAC <aniello.grado@gmail.com>
P. D'Avanzo (INAF-OAB), E. Palazzi (INAF-OAS), G. Greco (Univ. Urbino), S.
Yang (INAF-OAPd), S. Campana (INAF-OAB), G. Stratta (INAF-OAS), A. Rossi
(INAF-OAS), Nicola Masetti (inaf-oas) and E. Brocato on behalf of GRAWITA
report:
We carried out further optical follow-up observations of the LIGO/Virgo GW
trigger S190509g (LVC, GCN Circ. 24442) with the 60-cm robotic telescope
REM located at the La Silla Observatory (Chile). The observations started
at 2019-05-11 at 00:49:48 UT, simultaneously in the g, r, i, z bands (the
REM NIR camera was not operational).
We observed the following galaxies within the 50% probability of the
updated skymap visible from La Silla:
RA(J2000) Dec(J2000) Dist(Mpc)
----------------------------------------------------
J055219-342051 05:52:19.00 -34:20:51.4 138.68
J055149-314446 05:51:49.92 -31:44:46.0 210.86
J054827-325838 05:48:27.60 -32:58:38.1 160.69
J060115-313225 06:01:15.09 -31:32:25.5 191.43
J055425-350235 05:54:25.29 -35:02:35.1 143.88
J055028-334429 05:50:28.73 -33:44:29.3 165.20
J055740-345601 05:57:40.71 -34:56:01.8 146.97
J055949-353200 05:59:49.81 -35:32:00.5 138.04
No clear counterpart for S190509g is found down to a typical 3sigma
magnitude of r > 19 (AB).
We also carried out optical follow-up of the possible transient we reported
in D'Avanzo et al. (GCN Circ. #24455) found in REM images at RA(J2000),
Dec(J2000) = 14:29:15.99, +09:41:12.3 with magnitude r = 17.3 (AB) on
2019-05-10 at 08:07:18 UT. Optical imaging follow-up observations of this
possible transient were carried out with the 1.5m Loiano telescope (Italy)
in the R band on 2019-05-10 at 20:44:08 UT (i.e. about 12.6 hours after the
REM detection reported in GCN Circ. #24455). In the Loiano images the
object is not detected down to a 3-sigma limiting magnitude of R > 20.3
(AB, calibrated against the SDSS). This non-detection is in agreement with
the findings reported by Zhu et al. (GCN Circ. #24479) and favor a fast
transient (like a stellar flare) interpretation for the nature of this
object, although the hypothesis of an image artifact cannot be completely
excluded.
GCN Circular 24484
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190510g: GRAWITA VST-ESO PARANAL optical observations
Date
2019-05-11T15:33:28Z (6 years ago)
From
Aniello Grado at INAF-OAC <aniello.grado@gmail.com>
*S. Yang (INAF-OAPd), E. Cappellaro (INAF-OAPd), F. Getman (INAF-OAC), A.
Grado (INAF-OAC), G. Greco (Univ. Urbino), S. Covino (INAF-OAB), L. Izzo
(IAA), E. Palazzi (INAF-OAS), L. Nicastro (INAF-OAS), M.T. Botticella
(INAF-OAC), P. D'Avanzo (INAF-OAB), M. Branchesi (GSSI), E. Brocato
(INAF-OAAb, INAF-OAR) on behalf of GRAWITA report:We observed part of the
50% probability of the updated skymap of the LIGO/Virgo GW trigger S190509g
(LVC, GCN Circ. 24442), with the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO-Paranal
equipped with OMEGACAM (FOV=1 square degree). The observations were taken
in the r-sloan band and started on 2019-05 11 at 00:03:23 UT.The covered
area is of about 15 square degrees divided in of 80 sec of exposure time
each.The pointings are centered on the following coordinates RA, Dec
(J2000):05:57:42.54, -33:00:00.005:57:02.43, -34:00:00.005:52:56.37,
-33:00:00.005:53:45.21, -32:00:00.006:01:51.92, -34:00:00.005:52:12.94,
-34:00:00.005:58:28.21, -32:00:00.006:02:28.71, -33:00:00.006:01:20.96,
-35:00:00.005:56:27.97, -35:00:00.006:03:59.38, -31:00:00.006:11:06.93,
-35:00:00.006:06:13.94, -35:00:00.006:10:49.22, -36:00:00.006:11:30.91,
-34:00:00.0The image analysis is ongoing.*
GCN Circular 24480
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190510g: DESGW counterpart candidates over 80% of the GW localization area
Date
2019-05-11T11:06:55Z (6 years ago)
From
M. Soares-Santos at Fermi Lab <marcelle.soares.santos@gmail.com>
LIGO/Virgo S190510g: DESGW counterpart candidates over 80% of the GW localization area
Marcelle Soares-Santos for the DESGW collaboration
We report candidate counterparts to the binary neutron star merger S190510g reported by the LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration (GCN Circular No. 24442, updated GCN Circular No. 24448). The region was imaged by DECam on the night of 2019 May 10 (GCN Circular No. 24467) in g,r,z bands.
These candidates were identified by our difference imaging pipeline. All newly obtained images were subtracted from deep pre-existing Dark Energy Survey images. The total coverage difference imaged is 28 fields of 3 square degrees each, i.e., a total of 84 square degrees which overlap ~80% of the total localization probability of S190510g.
After processing the entire area, we select high-confidence detections (machine learning score>0.7, rejecting dipoles) and perform post-processing vetting of the candidates (rejection of variable objects, matching to host galaxies, and visual inspection).
The resulting list of candidates is provided. We encourage followup:
NAME RA DEC MAG MAGERR BAND MJD HOST_Z COMMENT
desgw-190510a 91.526744 -35.541616 21.05 0.03 r 58613.958 0.08 Also reported in GCN No. 24474
desgw-190510b 93.704382 -36.980727 21.13 0.01 r 58613.989 -1.0 Hostless candidate
desgw-190510c 92.851468 -36.517324 20.41 0.01 r 58613.989 0.30 Also reported in GCN No. 24467
desgw-190510d 87.311398 -35.955853 19.85 0.02 r 58613.991 0.31 Also reported in GCN No. 24467
desgw-190510e 89.100926 -30.473987 20.64 0.02 r 58613.986 0.13 Second possible host at z=0.3
desgw-190510f 92.294458 -34.884684 21.30 0.02 r 58613.983 -1.0 Hostless candidate
desgw-190510g 92.468923 -34.08657 21.89 0.01 r 58613.987 -1.0 Hostless candidate
desgw-190510h 87.762354 -27.956502 20.31 0.03 r 58613.988 -1.0 Host found via visual inspection, no redshift
desgw-190510i 91.936973 -30.824747 20.14 0.01 r 58613.996 0.61 Probably not associated with S190510g
desgw-190510j 92.307977 -35.149829 20.75 0.02 r 58613.983 0.17 Redshift suggests possible association with S190510g
desgw-190510k 87.146843 -35.994357 19.75 0.02 z 58613.966 -1.0 Host redshift not available
As an alternative means of selecting high interest candidates, we used KN-Classify, a random forest classifier trained on transient light curves from PLAsTiCC models to determine the probability of a transient being a kilonova. The only such candidate found that survived the vetting process was also found by the normal method and is listed in the table above (desgw-190510c).
Transients matched to a galaxy at a redshift beyond distances plausible for the S190510g event are interpreted as supernova unassociated with S190510g.
DESGW collaboration:
Sahar Allam (Fermilab), James Annis (Fermilab), Iair Arcavi (Tel Aviv University), Paulo Barchi (INPE/Brazil), Keith Bechtol (LSST), Federico Berlfein (Brandeis U), Antonio Bernardo (IAG-USP/Brazil), Dillon Brout (University of Pennsylvania), Robert Butler (Indiana University), Melissa Butner, (Fermilab), Annalisa Calamida (STScI), Hsin-Yu Chen (Harvard U), Chris Conselice (University of Nottingham), Carlos Contreras (STScI), Jeff Cooke (Swinburne University), Chris D���Andrea (University of Pennsylvania), Tamara Davis (UQ/Australia), Reinaldo de Carvalho (NAT - Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul/Universidade Cidade de Sao Paulo), H. Thomas Diehl (Fermilab), Zoheyr Doctor (U Chicago), Alex Drlica-Wagner (Fermilab), Maria Drout (U Toronto), Maya Fishbach (U Chicago), Francisco Forster (U de Chile/Chile), Ryan Foley (UCSC), Joshua Frieman (Fermilab & University of Chicago), Chris Frohmaier (University of Portsmouth), Ori Fox (STScI), Alyssa Garcia (Brandeis U), Juan Garcia-Bellido (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid), Mandeep Gill (SLAC/Stanford U), Robert Gruendl (NCSA), Will Hartley (University College London), Kenneth Herner (Fermilab), Daniel Holz (U Chicago), Jorge Horvath (IAG-USP/Brazil), D. Andrew Howell (Las Cumbres Observatory), Richard Kessler (University of Chicago), Charles Kilpatrick (UCSC), Nikolay Kuropatkin (Fermilab), Ofer Lahav (University College London), Huan Lin (Fermilab), Andrew Lundgren (Portsmouth), Martin Makler (CBPF/Brazil), Curtis McCully (Las Cumbres Observatory), Robert Morgan (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Gautham Narayan (STScI), Eric Neilsen (Fermilab), Robert Nichol (University of Portsmouth), Antonella Palmese (Fermilab), Francisco Paz-Chinchon (NCSA & UIUC), Maria Pereira (Brandeis University), Sandro Rembold (UFSM/Brazil), Armin Rest (STScI & JHU), Livia Rocha (IAG-USP/Brazil), Russell Ryan (STScI), Masao Sako (University of Pennsylvania), Samir Salim (Indiana University), David Sand (U of Arizona), Daniel Scolnic (Duke University), J. Allyn Smith (Austin Peay State University), Mathew Smith (University of Southampton), Marcelle Soares-Santos (Brandeis U), Lou Strolger (STScI), Riccardo Sturani (UFRN/Brazil), Mark Sullivan (University of Southampton), Masaomi Tanaka (NAOJ/Japan), Nozomu Tominaga (Konan U/Japan), Douglas Tucker (Fermilab), Yousuke Utsumi (Stanford U), Stefano Valenti (UC Davis), Kathy Vivas (NOAO/CTIO), Alistair Walker (NOAO/CTIO), Sara Webb (Swinburne University), Matt Wiesner (Benedictine University), Brian Yanny (Fermilab), Michitoshi Yoshida (NAOJ/Japan), Alfredo Zenteno (NOAO/CTIO), Luidhy Santana-Silva (Valongo Observatory)
This project used data obtained with the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), which was constructed by the Dark Energy Survey collaboration, and draws on upon data as distributed by the Science Data Archive at NOAO. NOAO is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation.
GCN Circular 24479
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190510g : Xinglong-60cm upper limit of the GRAWITA REM's OT
Date
2019-05-11T10:40:06Z (6 years ago)
From
Dong Xu at NAOC/CAS <dxu@nao.cas.cn>
Z.P. Zhu, D. Xu, B.Y. Yu, J.J. Ren, T.M. Zhang, X. Zhou, H.J. Wang, C.Z.
Cui, D.W. Fan, Y.F. Xu (NAOC), X. Gao (Urumqi No.1 Senior High School),
S. Yang (INAF-OAPd), H.B. Zhao, B. Li (PMO), J.Z. Liu, H.B. Niu (XAO),
J.R. Mao, J.M. Bai (YNAO), report on behalf of the GWFUNC collaboration:
We observed the optical transient (OT), r = 17.3 +/- 0.1 (AB, calibrated
against
the SDSS), in P. D'Avanzo et al. (GCN 24455) of the gravitational-wave
event S190510g (GCN 24442) using the Xinglong-60cm telescope located at
Xinglong, Hebei, China.
The OT is ~20" away from the SDSS galaxy, SDSS J142914.95+094059.4,
which has a photoZ=0.041 +/- 0.0149, corresponding to a luminosity
distance of 182.2 Mpc, thus being consistent with the LIGO's luminosity
distance estimate of 227 +/- 92 Mpc (GCN 24448). At the above redshift,
SDSS J142914.95+094059.4 has an absolute magnitude of M(r) = 17.92-36.30
= -18.38, at the border of dwarf/normal galaxies. The OT is ~16.3 kpc
away from the nucleus of the SDSS galaxy, much larger than usual radii
of such galaxies. If double neutron stars are considered having been
kicked out of their host galaxy earlier before, such a scenario might be
possible.
Under the above assumption, we obtained 15x360 s frames in R band,
started at 16:12:27 on 2019-05-10, i.e., about 10 hr after the OT
detected. The OT has decayed and is not detected in our stacked image of
5400 s, down to a limiting magnitude of r ~ 20.6, calibrated with the
SDSS field.
GCN Circular 24478
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190510g: MASTER OT independ detection in WISE J060606.26-353233.9 galaxy at desgw-190510a position.
Date
2019-05-11T10:31:51Z (6 years ago)
From
Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs <lipunov@xray.sai.msu.ru>
V. Lipunov, N.Tyurina, E. Gorbovskoy, V.Kornilov, D.Vlasenko,
P.Balanutsa,D.Vlasenko, V.Vladimirov, D.Zimnukhov, A.Kuznetsov,
P.Balanutsa, I.Gorbunov, A. Chasovnikov, F.Balakin, V.Grinshpun,
T.Pogrosheva (Lomonosov Moscow State University, SAI, Physics Department),
D. Buckley (South African Astronomical Observatory),
A. Tlatov, V.Senik, A.V. Parhomenko, D. Dormidontov (Kislovodsk Solar Station
of the Pulkovo Observatory),
R. Rebolo, M. Serra, N. Lodieu, G. Israelian, L. Suarez-Andres (The Instituto
de Astrofisica de Canarias),
R. Podesta, C. Lopez, C.Francile, F. Podesta (Observatorio Astronomico Felix
Aguilar OAFA, San Juan National University),
H.Levato (Instituto de Ciencias Astronomicas, de la Tierra y del Espacio
ICATE,SJNU)
O. Gress, N.M. Budnev, O.Ershova (Applied Physics Institute, Irkutsk Stat
University),
V. Yurkov, A. Gabovich, Yu. Sergienko, D. Kobcev (Blagoveschensk EducationState
University),
After publication OT desgw-190510a detection (Jim Annis et al., GCN 24474)
After the publication OT desgw-190510a detection (Jim Annis et al., GCN
24474), the we checked the candidates of the
MASTER-SAAO robots and found MASTER transient in this place.
MASTER OT J060606.43-353229.8 at desgw-190510a position.
MASTER-SAAO auto-detection system ( Lipunov et al., "MASTER Global Robotic
Net", Advances in Astronomy, 2010, 30L )
discovered OT source at (RA, Dec) = 06h 06m 06.43s -35d 32m 29.8s on
~ 2019-05-10 UT.
The OT unfiltered magnitude is ~20 m in our red CCD.
The OT is seen in 2 images. There is no minor planet at this place.
We have reference image on 2019-02-04.86162 UT with unfiltered mlim=
20.2 m.
Folow up observations are required.
GCN Circular 24477
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190510g: Unconfirmed OT in PGC 094244
Date
2019-05-11T10:08:27Z (6 years ago)
From
Michael A Tucker at Inst. for Astronomy, UH Manoa <tuckerma95@gmail.com>
M. A. Tucker, A. Do, A. V. Payne, M. E. Huber, B. J. Shappee (UH Manoa,
Institute for Astronomy):
Following the discovery of an optical transient in PGC 094244 (GCN 24470,
Lipunov et al.), we obtained follow up V-band imaging with the SuperNova
Integral Field Spectrograph (SNIFS) on the University of Hawai'i 88-inch
(UH88) telescope. The transient is undetected in 2 images to a limiting
magnitude of V ~ 22, calibrated to PanSTARRS sources using the photometric
transformations of Tonry et al. (2012, ApJ).
Date Obs (UT) | Expt. (s) | mlim
-------------------------------------------------------------
2019-05-11T07:09:45 | 180 | ~21.5
2019-05-11T07:14:23 | 300 | ~22
-------------------------------------------------------------
GCN Circular 24476
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190510g: Dabancheng/HMT Follow-Up Observations
Date
2019-05-11T09:53:20Z (6 years ago)
From
Dong Xu at NAOC/CAS <dxu@nao.cas.cn>
Z.P. Zhu, D. Xu, B.Y. Yu, T.M. Zhang, X. Zhou, H.J. Wang, C.Z. Cui, D.W.
Fan, Y.F. Xu (NAOC), X. Gao (Urumqi No.1 Senior High School), S. Yang
(INAF-OAPd), H.B. Zhao, B. Li (PMO), J.Z. Liu, H.B. Niu (XAO), J.R. Mao,
J.M. Bai (YNAO), report on behalf of the GWFUNC collaboration:
We performed the search for the optical counterpart of LIGO/Virgo
S190510g (LVC, GCN 24442) using the Half-Meter Telescope (HMT) located
at Dabancheng, Xinjiang, China. Observations started at 16:00:00 UT on
2019-05-10 and ended at 22:32:00 UT on 2019-05-10, and the 60x40
arcmin^2 unfiltered imager scanned relatively high probability regions
of the LVC localization that are accessible to HMT.
The total area is about 97 deg^2, and listed below are the field centers
observed.
RA DEC
13:31:59 +00:39:25
13:31:59 +00:40:37
13:31:59 +00:40:37
13:32:00 +00:00:36
13:32:29 -01:19:26
13:32:30 +01:20:38
13:32:29 -01:59:27
13:32:30 +02:00:39
13:32:29 -02:39:28
13:32:29 +02:40:40
13:33:58 -03:19:30
13:33:59 +03:20:42
13:33:58 -03:59:31
13:33:59 +04:00:43
13:33:58 -04:39:32
13:33:59 +04:40:44
13:36:00 +00:39:25
13:36:00 +00:00:36
13:36:00 +00:40:37
13:36:00 +00:00:36
13:36:00 +00:40:37
13:36:29 -01:19:26
13:36:30 +01:20:38
13:36:29 -01:59:27
13:36:30 +02:00:39
13:36:29 -02:39:28
13:36:30 +02:40:40
13:36:28 -05:19:33
13:36:27 -05:59:34
13:36:27 -06:39:36
13:37:59 -03:19:30
13:37:59 -03:59:31
13:37:59 -04:39:32
13:38:00 +03:20:42
13:38:00 +04:00:43
13:38:00 +04:40:44
13:40:00 +00:39:25
13:40:00 +00:00:36
13:40:00 +00:40:37
13:40:00 +00:00:36
13:40:00 +00:40:37
13:40:29 -01:19:26
13:40:30 +01:20:38
13:40:29 -01:59:27
13:40:30 +02:00:39
13:40:29 -02:39:28
13:40:30 +02:40:40
13:40:29 -05:19:33
13:40:29 -05:59:34
13:40:29 -06:39:36
13:41:59 -03:19:30
13:41:59 -03:59:31
13:41:59 -04:39:32
13:42:00 +03:20:42
13:42:00 +04:00:43
13:42:01 +04:40:44
13:43:59 +00:39:25
13:43:59 +00:40:37
13:43:59 +00:40:37
13:44:00 +00:00:36
13:44:29 -01:19:26
13:44:30 +01:20:38
13:44:29 -01:59:27
13:44:30 +02:00:39
13:44:29 -02:39:28
13:44:30 +02:40:40
13:44:30 -05:19:33
13:44:30 -05:59:34
13:44:30 -06:39:36
13:48:00 +00:39:25
13:48:00 +00:00:36
13:48:00 +00:40:37
13:48:00 +00:00:36
13:48:00 +00:40:37
13:48:30 -01:19:26
13:48:30 +01:20:38
13:48:30 -01:59:27
13:48:30 +02:00:39
13:48:30 -02:39:28
13:48:30 +02:40:40
13:52:00 +00:39:25
13:52:00 +00:00:36
13:52:00 +00:40:37
13:52:00 +00:00:36
13:52:00 +00:40:37
13:52:30 -01:19:26
13:52:30 +01:20:38
13:52:30 -01:59:27
13:52:30 +02:00:39
13:52:30 -02:39:28
13:52:30 +02:40:40
14:22:06 +03:20:42
14:22:06 +04:00:43
14:22:06 +04:40:44
14:24:45 +05:20:45
14:24:45 +06:00:46
14:24:45 +06:40:48
14:26:07 +03:20:42
14:26:07 +04:00:43
14:26:07 +04:40:44
14:28:46 +05:20:45
14:28:46 +06:00:46
14:28:46 +06:40:48
14:30:07 +03:20:42
14:30:07 +04:00:43
14:30:08 +04:40:44
14:32:32 +01:20:38
14:32:32 +02:00:39
14:32:32 +02:40:40
14:32:47 +05:20:45
14:32:48 +06:00:46
14:32:48 +06:40:48
14:32:31 +08:40:51
14:34:08 +03:20:42
14:34:08 +04:00:43
14:34:08 +04:40:44
14:36:32 +01:20:38
14:36:32 +02:00:39
14:36:32 +02:40:40
14:36:33 +07:20:49
14:36:33 +08:00:50
14:36:34 +08:40:51
14:38:09 +03:20:42
14:38:09 +04:00:43
14:38:09 +04:40:44
14:40:32 +01:20:38
14:40:32 +02:00:39
14:40:32 +02:40:40
14:40:36 +07:20:49
14:40:35 +08:00:50
14:40:35 +08:40:51
14:42:09 +03:20:42
14:42:09 +04:00:43
14:42:09 +04:40:44
14:44:52 +06:40:48
14:44:38 +07:20:49
14:44:38 +08:00:50
14:44:38 +08:40:51
14:46:10 +03:20:42
14:46:10 +04:00:43
14:46:10 +04:40:44
14:48:53 +05:20:45
14:48:53 +06:00:46
14:48:53 +06:40:48
14:48:40 +07:20:49
14:48:40 +08:00:50
14:48:41 +08:40:51
14:49:33 +10:40:55
14:50:10 +03:20:42
14:50:10 +04:00:43
14:50:10 +04:40:44
14:52:54 +05:20:45
14:52:54 +06:00:46
14:52:54 +06:40:48
14:52:43 +07:20:49
14:52:43 +08:00:50
14:52:42 +08:40:51
14:53:36 +09:20:52
14:53:37 +10:00:54
14:53:37 +10:40:55
14:54:11 +03:20:42
14:54:11 +04:00:43
14:54:11 +04:40:44
14:56:55 +05:20:45
14:56:56 +06:00:46
14:56:56 +06:40:48
14:56:45 +07:20:49
14:56:45 +08:00:50
14:56:45 +08:40:51
15:00:47 +07:20:49
15:00:47 +08:00:50
15:00:48 +08:40:51
Data analysis is ongoing. Optical transients from the above fields, if
interesting, will be reported later.
GCN Circular 24475
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190510g: Xinglong/Schmidt Follow-Up Observations
Date
2019-05-11T09:38:48Z (6 years ago)
From
Dong Xu at NAOC/CAS <dxu@nao.cas.cn>
Z.P. Zhu, D. Xu, B.Y. Yu, T.M. Zhang, X. Zhou, X.M. Teng, P.F. Liu, X.
N. Guan, H.J. Wang, C.Z. Cui, D.W. Fan, Y.F. Xu (NAOC), S. Yang
(INAF-OAPd), H.B. Zhao, B. Li (PMO), J.Z. Liu, H.B. Niu (XAO), J.R. Mao,
J.M. Bai (YNAO), X. Gao (Urumqi No.1 Senior High School), report on
behalf of the GWFUNC collaboration:
We performed the search for the optical counterpart of LIGO/Virgo
S190510g (LVC, GCN 24442) using the 0.9-m Schmidt telescope located at
Xinglong, Hebei, China. Observations started at 12:50:37 UT on
2019-05-10 and ended at 18:39:16 UT on 2019-05-10, and the 1.5 x 1.5
deg^2 imager scanned relatively high probability regions of the LVC
localization that are accessible to the Xinglong/Schmidt telescope. The
unfiltered images were taken with 60 sec exposure time and typical
limiting depth is around 18.5 mag.
Below listed are the field centers observed.
RA(J2000) DEC(J2000)
13:27:04.200 +02:54:36.00
13:33:04.800 +02:53:57.00
13:38:46.100 +02:54:04.00
13:27:42.000 +04:23:47.00
13:33:29.900 +04:24:04.00
13:39:29.300 +04:24:08.00
13:27:58.390 +05:53:48.00
13:32:47.200 +05:54:02.00
13:38:41.700 +05:54:05.00
13:25:40.400 -01:36:36.00
13:30:58.590 -01:36:02.00
13:36:36.600 -01:35:57.00
13:25:00.000 -00:06:21.00
13:30:59.990 -00:06:01.00
13:37:00.600 -00:05:57.00
13:24:58.500 +01:23:38.00
13:30:56.700 +01:23:59.00
13:36:58.300 +01:24:03.00
13:42:59.190 -01:35:59.00
13:48:57.790 -01:35:49.00
13:54:59.590 -01:35:44.00
13:42:59.700 -00:05:46.00
13:49:00.000 -00:05:53.00
13:54:59.690 -00:05:40.00
13:42:58.290 +01:23:52.00
13:48:32.500 +01:24:12.00
13:54:48.900 +01:24:15.00
13:27:37.600 -06:06:12.00
13:33:29.800 -06:06:00.00
13:39:30.800 -06:05:56.00
13:27:31.400 -04:36:25.00
13:33:32.200 -04:35:56.00
13:39:30.900 -04:35:55.00
13:27:29.000 -03:05:51.00
13:33:30.100 -03:06:02.00
13:39:31.290 -03:05:56.00
14:21:26.200 +02:54:44.00
14:27:12.790 +02:54:45.00
14:33:19.100 +02:54:50.00
14:21:38.600 +04:24:25.00
14:27:12.590 +04:24:46.00
14:33:13.090 +04:24:50.00
14:21:57.890 +05:54:37.00
14:27:13.200 +05:54:46.00
14:33:41.100 +05:54:51.00
14:39:44.300 +02:54:57.00
14:45:25.600 +02:55:02.00
14:51:22.800 +02:55:09.00
14:39:40.400 +04:25:05.00
14:45:28.800 +04:25:00.00
14:50:45.490 +04:25:09.00
14:39:58.600 +05:54:56.00
14:45:15.190 +05:55:04.00
14:51:43.090 +05:55:16.00
13:45:31.900 -06:05:48.00
13:51:19.200 -06:05:48.00
13:57:02.000 -06:05:43.00
13:45:37.800 -04:35:48.00
13:51:35.000 -04:35:47.00
13:57:32.200 -04:35:41.00
13:45:39.100 -03:05:44.00
13:51:31.700 -03:05:50.00
13:57:31.900 -03:05:42.00
14:47:43.790 +07:24:57.00
14:53:54.800 +07:25:13.00
14:59:56.500 +07:25:18.00
14:47:52.300 +08:54:32.00
14:54:00.100 +08:55:17.00
15:00:00.990 +08:55:18.00
14:48:00.100 +10:24:57.00
14:54:03.790 +10:25:12.00
15:00:03.800 +10:25:26.00
14:29:40.400 +07:24:50.00
14:29:50.890 +07:24:50.00
14:29:50.890 +07:24:50.00
14:29:38.400 +08:54:58.00
14:35:43.000 +08:54:50.00
14:41:45.600 +08:54:59.00
14:30:07.600 +10:24:40.00
14:35:33.300 +10:24:58.00
14:41:31.500 +10:24:59.00
14:37:00.800 -01:35:07.00
14:42:51.890 -01:35:02.00
14:48:30.600 -01:34:54.00
14:37:11.290 -00:05:13.00
14:42:32.200 -00:05:00.00
14:48:27.600 -00:04:53.00
14:37:04.800 +01:24:42.00
14:42:54.700 +01:25:00.00
14:48:41.390 +01:25:08.00
14:18:44.800 -01:35:26.00
14:24:52.200 -01:35:19.00
14:30:47.900 -01:35:12.00
14:19:08.790 -00:05:36.00
14:25:00.800 -00:05:12.00
14:30:33.800 -00:05:12.00
14:19:07.000 +01:24:23.00
14:25:00.100 +01:24:47.00
14:30:30.890 +01:24:48.00
13:45:48.100 +02:54:01.00
13:51:23.200 +02:54:13.00
13:57:09.200 +02:54:17.00
13:45:38.890 +04:23:56.00
13:50:57.600 +04:24:13.00
13:57:32.500 +04:24:22.00
13:45:37.500 +05:54:01.00
13:51:14.300 +05:54:14.00
13:57:13.490 +05:54:18.00
14:57:54.700 +02:55:13.00
15:03:41.600 +02:55:24.00
15:09:44.690 +02:55:31.00
14:57:52.300 +04:25:23.00
15:03:43.790 +04:25:25.00
15:09:18.300 +04:25:31.00
14:57:54.490 +05:54:43.00
15:03:45.290 +05:55:25.00
15:09:43.290 +05:55:31.00
13:34:58.900 +07:24:03.00
13:40:47.400 +07:24:02.00
13:47:06.400 +07:24:09.00
13:35:04.590 +08:53:46.00
13:40:09.500 +08:54:05.00
13:47:08.800 +08:54:10.00
13:35:03.600 +10:24:05.00
13:40:29.690 +10:24:05.00
13:46:49.590 +10:24:10.00
14:55:11.900 -01:34:45.00
15:00:58.800 -01:34:41.00
15:07:16.700 -01:34:33.00
14:55:11.300 -00:04:41.00
15:00:26.000 -00:04:42.00
15:06:07.400 -00:04:32.00
14:55:02.700 +01:25:20.00
15:00:58.200 +01:25:22.00
15:06:59.000 +01:25:27.00
14:11:25.300 +07:24:21.00
14:16:38.690 +07:24:36.00
14:22:40.490 +07:24:41.00
14:11:24.900 +08:54:34.00
14:17:55.400 +08:54:36.00
14:23:07.990 +08:54:41.00
14:11:40.700 +10:24:18.00
14:16:32.190 +10:24:36.00
14:23:03.390 +10:24:41.00
14:03:48.200 +02:54:12.00
14:08:13.700 +02:54:27.00
14:15:21.300 +02:54:32.00
14:03:44.100 +04:24:27.00
14:09:21.890 +04:24:32.00
14:15:26.000 +04:24:32.00
14:03:31.790 +05:54:16.00
14:09:37.790 +05:54:29.00
14:15:35.100 +05:54:32.00
14:43:29.400 +11:55:14.00
14:49:28.000 +11:55:04.00
14:55:21.690 +11:55:14.00
14:43:17.290 +13:25:06.00
14:49:14.900 +13:25:07.00
14:55:41.100 +13:25:15.00
14:43:15.300 +14:54:59.00
14:49:29.000 +14:55:07.00
14:55:14.100 +14:55:15.00
Data analysis is ongoing. Optical transients from the above fields, if
interesting, will be reported later.
GCN Circular 24474
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190510g: DESGW counterpart candidate (desgw-190510a)
Date
2019-05-11T08:42:33Z (6 years ago)
From
James Annis at Fermilab <annis@fnal.gov>
LIGO/Virgo S190510g: DESGW counterpart candidate (desgw-190510a)
Jim Annis for the DESGW collaboration
We report a candidate counterpart to the binary neutron star merger S190510g reported by LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration (GCN Circular No. 24442, updated GCN Circular No. 24448). The region was imaged by DECam on the night of 2019 May 10 (GCN Circular No. 24467). The candidate was identified by visual inspection of 566 galaxies nearby galaxies within the 50% localization probability region of the merger. The visual inspection compared the new images with deep pre-existing imaging data obtained by the Dark Energy Survey. The transient appears in our g,r,z images.
Transient: desgw-190510a
Coordinates: 91.52679, -35.54160 ( 6:06:06.429,-35:32:29.77 )
g mag: 22.5 +/- 0.2
r mag: 20.9 +/- 0.05
z mag: 20.7 +/- 0.1
These magnitudes are as observed, uncorrected for reddening.
Host galaxy: 2MASS06060625-3532351
Coordinates: 91.52605, -35.54311 ( 6:06:06.252,-35:32:35.20 )
Radius of galaxy: 6.6���
J mag: 14.64
Redshift: 0.089 (2MPZ photo-z)
DESGW collaboration:
Sahar Allam (Fermilab), James Annis (Fermilab), Iair Arcavi (Tel Aviv University), Paulo Barchi (INPE/Brazil), Keith Bechtol (LSST), Federico Berlfein (Brandeis U), Antonio Bernardo (IAG-USP/Brazil), Dillon Brout (University of Pennsylvania), Robert Butler (Indiana University), Melissa Butner, (Fermilab), Annalisa Calamida (STScI), Hsin-Yu Chen (Harvard U), Chris Conselice (University of Nottingham), Carlos Contreras (STScI), Jeff Cooke (Swinburne University), Chris D���Andrea (University of Pennsylvania), Tamara Davis (UQ/Australia), Reinaldo de Carvalho (NAT - Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul/Universidade Cidade de Sao Paulo), H. Thomas Diehl (Fermilab), Zoheyr Doctor (U Chicago), Alex Drlica-Wagner (Fermilab), Maria Drout (U Toronto), Maya Fishbach (U Chicago), Francisco Forster (U de Chile/Chile), Ryan Foley (UCSC), Joshua Frieman (Fermilab & University of Chicago), Chris Frohmaier (University of Portsmouth), Ori Fox (STScI), Alyssa Garcia (Brandeis U), Juan Garcia-Bellido (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid), Mandeep Gill (SLAC/Stanford U), Robert Gruendl (NCSA), Will Hartley (University College London), Kenneth Herner (Fermilab), Daniel Holz (U Chicago), Jorge Horvath (IAG-USP/Brazil), D. Andrew Howell (Las Cumbres Observatory), Richard Kessler (University of Chicago), Charles Kilpatrick (UCSC), Nikolay Kuropatkin (Fermilab), Ofer Lahav (University College London), Huan Lin (Fermilab), Andrew Lundgren (Portsmouth), Martin Makler (CBPF/Brazil), Curtis McCully (Las Cumbres Observatory), Robert Morgan (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Gautham Narayan (STScI), Eric Neilsen (Fermilab), Robert Nichol (University of Portsmouth), Antonella Palmese (Fermilab), Francisco Paz-Chinchon (NCSA & UIUC), Maria Pereira (Brandeis University), Sandro Rembold (UFSM/Brazil), Armin Rest (STScI & JHU), Livia Rocha (IAG-USP/Brazil), Russell Ryan (STScI), Masao Sako (University of Pennsylvania), Samir Salim (Indiana University), David Sand (U of Arizona), Daniel Scolnic (Duke University), J. Allyn Smith (Austin Peay State University), Mathew Smith (University of Southampton), Marcelle Soares-Santos (Brandeis U), Lou Strolger (STScI), Riccardo Sturani (UFRN/Brazil), Mark Sullivan (University of Southampton), Masaomi Tanaka (NAOJ/Japan), Nozomu Tominaga (Konan U/Japan), Douglas Tucker (Fermilab), Yousuke Utsumi (Stanford U), Stefano Valenti (UC Davis), Kathy Vivas (NOAO/CTIO), Alistair Walker (NOAO/CTIO), Sara Webb (Swinburne University), Matt Wiesner (Benedictine University), Brian Yanny (Fermilab), Michitoshi Yoshida (NAOJ/Japan), Alfredo Zenteno (NOAO/CTIO), Luidhy Santana-Silva (Valongo Observatory)
This project used data obtained with the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), which was constructed by the Dark Energy Survey collaboration, and draws on upon data as distributed by the Science Data Archive at NOAO. NOAO is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation.
GCN Circular 24473
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190510g: Pierre Auger Observatory follow-up
Date
2019-05-11T08:14:07Z (6 years ago)
From
Jaime Alvarez-Muniz at Pierre Auger Observatory <jaime.alvarezmuniz@gmail.com>
J. Alvarez-Muniz, F. Pedreira, E. Zas (Univ. Santiago de Compostela, Spain),
K. H. Kampert & M. Schimp (Bergische Universitat, Wuppertal, Germany)
on behalf of the Pierre Auger Collaboration.
In response to:
LIGO/Virgo GW trigger S190510g
T0=2019-05-10 02:59:39 UTC
We searched for Ultra-High-Energy (UHE) neutrinos with energies
above ~ 1e17 eV in data collected with the Surface Detector (SD)
of the Pierre Auger Observatory in a [-500,500] second interval
about the LIGO-Virgo trigger S190510g as well as 1 day after it.
The field of view (fov) where the SD of Auger is sensitive to UHE
neutrinos (corresponding to inclined directions with respect to the
vertical relative to the ground) was PARTIALLY COINCIDENT (18.1%) with
the LIGO 90% localization region at the time T0 of the merger alert,
achieving MAXIMUM OVERLAP (78.8%) at approximately T0+5.9 hours.
NO events survived the cuts applied to reject the background due to UHE
Cosmic Rays i.e.
NO NEUTRINO CANDIDATES WERE DETECTED.
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The Pierre Auger Observatory is an UHE Cosmic Ray detector
located in the Mendoza Province in Argentina. It consists of
an array of Water Cherenkov detectors spread over a total surface
of 3000 km^2 arranged in a triangular grid of 1.5 km side as well
as Fluorescence telescopes and other systems
(see 10.1016/j.nima.2015.06.058 for more information).
For neutrino searches from GW events with Auger, please refer to:
https://journals.aps.org/prd/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.122007
GCN Circular 24470
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190510g: MASTER possible OT in PGC094244 galaxy
Date
2019-05-11T05:22:00Z (6 years ago)
From
Vladimir Lipunov at Moscow State U/Krylov Obs <lipunov@xray.sai.msu.ru>
V. Lipunov, F.Balakin, N.Tyurina, E. Gorbovskoy, V.Kornilov,
D.Vlasenko, V.Vladimirov, D.Zimnukhov, A.Kuznetsov,
P.Balanutsa, I.Gorbunov, A. Chasovnikov, V.Grinshpun, T.Pogrosheva
(Lomonosov Moscow State University, SAI, Physics Department),
A. Tlatov, V.Senik, A.V. Parhomenko, D. Dormidontov (Kislovodsk Solar
Station of the Pulkovo Observatory),
R. Rebolo, M. Serra, N. Lodieu, G. Israelian, L. Suarez-Andres (The Instituto
de Astrofisica de Canarias),
R. Podesta, C. Lopez, C.Francile, F. Podesta (Observatorio Astronomico Felix
Aguilar OAFA, San Juan National University),
H.Levato (Instituto de Ciencias Astronomicas, de la Tierra y del Espacio
ICATE,SJNU)
D. Buckley (South African Astronomical Observatory),
O. Gress, N.M. Budnev, O.Ershova (Applied Physics Institute, Irkutsk Stat
University),
V. Yurkov, A. Gabovich, Yu. Sergienko, D. Kobcev (Blagoveschensk EducationState
University),
OT MASTER140133.93-110805.8 in PGC094244 galaxy.
MASTER-Kislovodsk auto-detection system discovered OT source at (RA, Dec)
= 14h 01m 33.93s -11d 08m 05.8s on 2019-05-10.82038 UT.
The OT unfiltered magnitude is ~19.0m (limit 19.2m).
The OT is seen in 2 unfiltered images. There is no minor planet at this
place.
We have reference image without OT on 2014-05-26.82247 UT with unfiltered
magnitude limit 19.8m.
There is PGC094244 galaxy near OT. OT offset is 36W
22.6S . The galaxy distance is ~300 Mpc .
Follow up observations are required.
The message may be cited.
GCN Circular 24468
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190510g: SOAR/Goodman follow-up observations
Date
2019-05-11T03:44:04Z (6 years ago)
From
Charles Kilpatrick at UC Santa Cruz <cdkilpat@ucsc.edu>
C. D. Kilpatrick, M. R. Siebert, J. S. Brown, D. A. Coulter, G. Dimitriadis, R. J. Foley, C. Rojas-Bravo, K. Siellez, T. Hung, D. O. Jones, A. Murguia-Berthier, J. X. Prochaska, E. Ramirez-Ruiz (UCSC), J. A. Smith (Austin Peay State University), M. Wiesner (Benedictine University), F. Berlfein, A. Garcia, M. Pereira, M. Soares-Santos (Brandeis University), I. Souza (CBPF), M. Makler, I. Souza (CBPF/Brazil), B. Madore, A. L. Piro (Carnegie), H.-Y. Chen (Harvard), R. Kirshner (CfA), B. Metzger (Columbia University), D. Scolnic (Duke University), S. Allam, J. Annis, M. Butner, H. T. Diehl, A. Drlica-Wagner, J. Frieman, K. Herner, N. Kuropatkin, H. Lin, E. Neilsen, A. Palmese, D. Tucker, B. Yanny (Fermilab), J. Horvath, L. Rocha (IAG-USP/Brazil), A. Bernardo (IAS-USP/Brazil), P. Barchi, R. de Carvalho (INPE/Brazil), R. Butler, S. Salim (Indiana University), A. Riess (JHU), N. Tominaga (Konan U/Japan), J. Vinko (Konkoly Observatory), K. Bechtol (LSST), J. Burke, D. Hiramatsu, C. McCully (Las Cumbres Observatory), D. Haggard (McGill University), Y. Pan, M. Tanaka, M. Yoshida, M. Yoshida (NAOJ), R. Gruendl, F. Paz-Chinchon (NCSA), K. Vivas, A. Walker, A. Zenteno (NOAO), F. Bauer, A. Clocchiatti (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile), K. Spekkens (Royal Military College of Canada), S. Jha (Rutgers University), A. Calamida, C. Contreras, G. Narayan, A. Rest (STScI), M. Gill, Y. Utsumi (Stanford), J. Cooke (Swinburne University of Technology), I. Arcavi (Tel Aviv University), K. Krisciunas, N. Suntzeff, L. Wang (Texas A&M), A. Corsi (Texas Tech University), A. Horesh (The Hebrew University), X. Wang (Tsinghua University), J. S. Bloom, T. Brink, A. V. Filippenko, D. Kasen, E. Quataert, W. Zheng (UC Berkeley), A. Bostroem, S. Valenti (UC Davis), A. Howell (UC Santa Barbara), R. Sturani (UFRN/Brazil), S. Rembold (UFSM/Brazil), T. Davis (UQ/Australia), O. Rodri (Universidad Andres Bello), F. Forster-Buron (Universidad de Chile), W. Hartley, O. Lahav (University College London), J. Andrews, M. Lundquist, D. Sand (University of Arizona), Z. Doctor, M. Fishbach, W. Freedman, D. Holz, R. Kessler (University of Chicago), P. M. Garnavich (University of Notre Dame), C. Conselice (University of Nottingham), D. Brout, C. D'Andrea, M. Sako (University of Pennsylvania), C. Frohmaier, A. Lundgren, R. Nichol, L. Nuttall (University of Portsmouth), M. Smith, M. Sullivan (University of Southampton), J. C. Wheeler (University of Texas/Austin), M. Drout (University of Toronto), R. Morgan (University of Wisconsin-Madison), K. Lukosiute (Wellesley College)
report on behalf of the 1M2H and DESGW collaborations:
In the process of searching the localization region of LIGO/Virgo S190510g (LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration, GCN #24448), we obtained 3-minute r-band exposures of the following regions with the Goodman High Throughput Spectrograph on the SOAR 4-m telescope. The field of view is a 7.2-arcmin diameter circle. The approximate center of each image is noted in the table below. We also note the approximate 3-sigma limiting magnitude of each image.
Comparing our images to DES DR1 r-band images of the same fields, we did not detect any transient sources.
RA (J2000) | DEC (J2000) | MJD | Limiting Magnitude
06:06:00.86 | -32:47:28.55 | 58613.9634598 | 21.3
05:51:48.47 | -31:28:21.43 | 58613.9697709 | 21.6
05:55:10.63 | -32:04:19.33 | 58613.9807059 | 21.7
05:59:44.38 | -32:54:47.42 | 58613.9842936 | 21.7
06:07:49.70 | -33:30:45.58 | 58613.9875954 | 21.7
05:51:48.38 | -31:21:10.17 | 58613.9908477 | 21.6
05:59:08.22 | -32:04:26.44 | 58613.9943430 | 21.7
05:50:37.29 | -32:18:50.38 | 58613.9979812 | 21.6
05:52:16.38 | -33:38:02.52 | 58614.0014418 | 21.6
05:58:02.52 | -34:06:49.28 | 58614.0052499 | 21.6
05:50:31.75 | -33:45:17.44 | 58614.0084120 | 21.5
05:53:24.15 | -34:21:14.39 | 58614.0116271 | 21.6
05:47:57.74 | -30:23:38.45 | 58614.0149357 | 21.5
05:51:38.62 | -34:28:28.46 | 58614.0181796 | 21.5
05:52:18.83 | -32:47:42.32 | 58614.0222639 | 21.5
05:55:44.58 | -32:04:30.50 | 58614.0257728 | 21.4
05:52:47.96 | -34:42:54.55 | 58614.0289522 | 21.5
05:59:41.23 | -31:42:57.35 | 58614.0323124 | 21.4
06:00:24.86 | -35:11:38.23 | 58614.0357864 | 21.4
06:09:01.75 | -33:52:31.40 | 58614.0391655 | 21.4
06:11:07.09 | -32:33:16.39 | 58614.0432460 | 21.4
We did not cover the location of any candidate identified in Andreoni et al. (GCN #24467).
We would like to thank Jay Elias for facilitating these Target of Opportunity observations.
Please direct all communication related to this circular to Charlie Kilpatrick (cdkilpat@ucsc.edu).
GCN Circular 24467
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190510g: Optical Counterpart Candidates from DECam-GROWTH
Date
2019-05-11T02:18:53Z (6 years ago)
From
Igor Andreoni at Caltech <igor.andreoni@gmail.com>
Igor Andreoni (Caltech), Daniel A. Goldstein (Caltech), Shreya Anand (Caltech), Mansi M. Kasliwal (Caltech), Michael S. Medford (UC Berkeley), Christoffer Fremling (Caltech), Michael Coughlin (Caltech), Tomas Ahumada (UMD), Pradip Gatkine (UMD), Peter E. Nugent (LBNL), Joshua S. Bloom (UC Berkeley), Keming Zhang (UC Berkeley), Jeff Cooke (Swinburne/OzGrav), Jorge Mart��nez Palomera (UC Berkeley), Ashish Mahabal (Caltech), Leo P. Singer (NASA GSFC), Sara Webb (Swinburne/OzGrav), Ariel Goobar (OKC), Harsh Kumar (IITB), Varun Bhalerao (IITB), Samaya Nissanke (UvA) on behalf of the Global Relay of Observatories Watching Transients Happen (GROWTH) collaborations:
Starting on 2019 May 10 22:56 UTC, we observed the high-probability region of the LALInference skymap of gravitational wave source S190510g (LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration, GCN #24448) using the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the Victor M. Blanco 4m Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Chile, continuing the observations described in Andreoni et al. (2019; GCN #24443). We covered 78.9 deg^2 of the localization region and 66% of the probability in the r and z filters to average limiting magnitudes of 23.1 (r-band) and 21.9 (z-band), obtaining 1 epoch in z and 1 in r. We obtained g-band for roughly 85% of the fields to a limiting magnitude of 22.9. We performed difference imaging in real-time using an automated pipeline we developed for gravitational wave counterpart searches, taking reference images from the Dark Energy Survey and the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey, covering 100% of the observed area.
Below is a preliminary list of interesting candidates based on our real-time pipeline. Each candidate has at least two detections in two different filters and a prominent host galaxy.
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Name | RA | Dec |filter| mag | err |filter| mag | err
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DG19lcnl | 87.14690 | -35.99441 | r | 19.45 | 0.02 | g | 20.27 | 0.04
DG19ukvo | 89.21146 | -33.44248 | r | 21.57 | 0.07 | g | 21.54 | 0.12
DG19nanl | 87.31139 | -35.95584 | r | 20.01 | 0.03 | g | 20.33 | 0.05
DG19zaxn | 92.30795 | -35.14981 | r | 20.81 | 0.06 | g | 20.88 | 0.06
DG19etsk | 89.10091 | -30.47397 | r | 20.83 | 0.06 | g | 20.61 | 0.06
DG19yhhm | 91.93699 | -30.82476 | r | 20.13 | 0.03 | g | 20.06 | 0.04
DG19llhk | 90.86311 | -32.38554 | r | 21.14 | 0.07 | z | 21.12 | 0.12
DG19fqqk | 92.85149 | -36.51731 | r | 20.43 | 0.03 | z | 20.59 | 0.09
DG19yhhm | 91.93699 | -30.82476 | r | 20.13 | 0.03 | z | 20.35 | 0.10
DG19bexl | 90.45378 | -28.66039 | r | 21.10 | 0.08 | z | 21.03 | 0.16
DG19ootl | 87.03556 | -36.07611 | r | 21.74 | 0.10 | z | 21.51 | 0.14
DG19nouo | 92.00130 | -31.66915 | r | 21.19 | 0.08 | g | 21.43 | 0.11
DG19oahn | 86.33527 | -26.84768 | r | 19.30 | 0.02 | z | 18.97 | 0.03
We note that the host of DG19llhk is at z=0.07, consistent with the current LVC distance estimate. At this distance, the absolute magnitude would be -16.4, consistent with GW170817 at +1 day. We also note that the colors of DG19lcnl appear consistent with GW170817, but we do not have a host redshift. However, we caution that we do not have any constraints on the light curve history and hence, the phase of this event. We strongly encourage spectroscopic follow-up to classify these transients.
We thank the CTIO staff, Steve Heathcote, Kathy Vivas, Tim Abbott, for facilitating these Target of Opportunity observations.
GROWTH is a worldwide collaboration comprising Caltech, USA; IPAC, USA, WIS, Israel; OKC, Sweden; JSI/UMd, USA; U Washington, USA; DESY, Germany; MOST, Taiwan; UW Milwaukee, USA; LANL USA; Tokyo Tech, Japan; IIT-B, India; IIA, India; LJMU, UK; TTU USA and USyd, Australia. GROWTH acknowledges generous support of the NSF under PIRE Grant No 1545949. An optimized schedule was generated using the ToO marshal system (Coughlin et al. 2019). Alert filtering and follow-up co-ordination is being undertaken by the GROWTH marshal system (Kasliwal et al. 2019).
This research draws upon DECam data as distributed by the Science Data Archive at NOAO. NOAO is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. This project used data obtained with the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), which was constructed by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) collaboration.
This message may be cited.
GCN Circular 24466
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190510g: KMTNet observation
Date
2019-05-11T01:35:31Z (6 years ago)
From
Myungshin Im at Seoul Nat U <mim@astro.snu.ac.kr>
Myungshin Im (SNU), Joonho Kim (SNU), Chung-Uk Lee (KASI), Seung-Lee Kim
(KASI), Gregory S. H. Paek (SNU), Gu Lim (SNU), Changsu Choi (SNU),
Sungyong Hwang (SNU), Bomi Park (SNU), Sophia Kim (SNU), Hyung Mok Lee
(KASI), on behalf of a larger collaboration
With KMTNet, we observed the whole 60\% credible region of the updated
localization map of the BNS merger candidate, S190510g (LIGO/Virgo GCN
24448). The observation took place at the KMTNet South Africa (SAAO) and
Chile (CTIO) stations, starting at 2019-5-10 16:38 UT. The images were
taken in R-band with 240 sec exposure time to the depth of R ~ 21.7
(5-sigma detection). The search for transients is ongoing, although no
obvious transient has been identified so far.
We thank the KMTNet staffs for performing the observation.
GCN Circular 24465
Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190510g: CNEOST Follow-Up Observations
Date
2019-05-11T00:03:02Z (6 years ago)
From
Bin Li at PMO <binli@pmo.ac.cn>
Bin Li, Hai-bin Zhao (PMO),Dong Xu, Zi-pei Zhu, Bang-Yao Yu,Tian-meng Zhang, Xu Zhou,Chen-zhou Cui, Hui-juan Wang(NAOC), Xue-feng Wu, Zhi-ping Jin, Tian-rui Sun, Hao Lu, Ge-tu Zhaori, Ren-quan Hong, Long-fei Hu (PMO), Xiao-feng Wang, Wen-xiong Li (THU),Li-fan Wang (PMO/TAMU), Tian-meng Zhang, Xu Zhou (NAOC), Jin-zhong Liu (XAO), Ji-rong Mao, Jin-ming Bai (YNAO), report on behalf of the CNEOST collaboration.
We conducted optical imaging observations in the 50% localization of the BNS merger candidate, S190510g, detected by LIGO/Virgo (GCN #24442; GCN #24448) with Chinese Near Earth Object Survey Telescope (CNEOST) at Xuyi astronomical station in Jiangsu Province, China (32.75N, 118.47E). The information of observations and preliminary results are listed below.
The new resulte will available at http://www.cneost.org/opem/list.php?gdate=2019-05-10
Alert: LIGO/Virgo S190510g (GCN #24442; GCN #24448