[vsnet-grb-info 22245] LIGO/Virgo S190426c: Gaia Photometric Alerts transient candidate

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  24344
SUBJECT: LIGO/Virgo S190426c: Gaia Photometric Alerts transient candidate
DATE:    19/04/29 15:57:48 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 a transient
candidate within the probability skymap of S190426c (LIGO/VIRGO
Collaboration GCN Circ. 24237):

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Name      TNSid Date [TCB]          RaDeg DecDeg AlertMag URL

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Gaia19boq AT2019egk 2019-04-27T19:35:33 319.09753 58.89088  18.67

      http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts/alert/Gaia19boq/

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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.