[vsnet-grb-info 22055] LIGO/Virgo S190408an: Liverpool Telescope follow-up imaging observations

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  24154
SUBJECT: LIGO/Virgo S190408an: Liverpool Telescope follow-up imaging observations
DATE:    19/04/23 12:17:13 GMT
FROM:    Peter Jonker at SRON/RU  <p.jonker at sron.nl>

P.G. Jonker (SRON/RU), M. Fraser (UCD), Manuel Torres (IAC), Pablo
Rodriguez-Gil (University of La Laguna), Kate Maguire (TCD), Z.
Kostrzewa-Rutkowska (SRON/RU), report, on behalf of the International Time
Proposal team, on Liverpool Telescope 3x300 sec r'-band imaging observations
obtained on 2019-04-21T05:47:58 of the transient candidate(s) Gaia19bij found by
the Gaia Alerts team (Kostrzewa-Rutkowska et al. GCN#24124) in the sky
localisation region of GW190408 / S190408an (Singer et al. GCN 24069):

Gaia19bij was found at r'~19, approximately 1.5" off-nuclear from a faint host
galaxy.

Acknowledgements: PGJ and ZKR acknowledge support from the European Research
Council under ERC Consolidator Grant agreement no 647208.