[vsnet-grb-info 22256] LIGO/Virgo S190426c: Gaia Photometric Alerts transient candidate

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  24355
SUBJECT: LIGO/Virgo S190426c: Gaia Photometric Alerts transient candidate
DATE:    19/04/30 15:20:56 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 24237):

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Name      TNSid Date [TCB]          RaDeg DecDeg AlertMag URL

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Gaia19bpm AT2019ehs 2019-04-29T07:29:20 299.21327 61.65942 18.86

      http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts/alert/Gaia19bpm/

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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.