[vsnet-grb-info 22445] LIGO/Virgo S190510g: Gaia Photometric Alerts transient candidate

GCN Circulars gcncirc at capella2.gsfc.nasa.gov
Wed May 15 07:01:39 JST 2019


TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  24544
SUBJECT: LIGO/Virgo S190510g: Gaia Photometric Alerts transient candidate
DATE:    19/05/14 22:00:26 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 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.



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