[vsnet-grb-info 22035] LIGO/Virgo S190408an: Gaia Photometric Alerts transient candidates

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  24134
SUBJECT: LIGO/Virgo S190408an: Gaia Photometric Alerts transient candidates
DATE:    19/04/19 21:56:13 GMT
FROM:    Zuzanna Kostrzewa-Rutkowska at SRON  <z.p.kostrzewa at 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 transient
candidates within the probability skymap of S190408an (Singer et al. GCN
24069):


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Name      TNSid     Date [TCB]          RaDeg     DecDeg    AlertMag URL

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Gaia19bkj AT2019dpg 2019-04-16T20:07:27 335.67749 19.60641  18.95

       http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts/alert/Gaia19bkj/

Gaia19bkd AT2019dma 2019-04-16T13:48:35 343.70771 36.54362  17.34

       http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts/alert/Gaia19bkd/

Gaia19bju AT2019dmc 2019-04-12T09:34:12 338.36352 36.07027  16.19

       http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts/alert/Gaia19bju/

Gaia19bji AT2019doo 2019-04-12T15:26:12 345.74049 41.71289  18.91

       http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts/alert/Gaia19bji/

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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.