[vsnet-grb-info 23124] LIGO/Virgo S190727h: Gaia Photometric Alerts transient candidate

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  25223
SUBJECT: LIGO/Virgo S190727h: Gaia Photometric Alerts transient candidate
DATE:    19/07/30 14:23:36 GMT
FROM:    Deepak Eappachen at SRON Netherlands  <d.eappachen at sron.nl>

Z. Kostrzewa-Rutkowska, D. Eappachen (SRON/RU), S. Hodgkin, A. Delgado, 
D.L. Harrison, M.van Leeuwen, G. Rixon, A. Yoldas (IoA Cambridge), P.G. Jonker
(SRON/RU) on behalf of Gaia Alerts team report the discovery of a transient
candidate within the probability skymap of  S190727h (LIGO/VIRGO
Collaboration GCN  25164):

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Name      	TNSid    	 Date [TCB]       		RaDeg     DecDeg    AlertMag URL
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Gaia19dfl  AT2019lyg       2019-07-27T17:34:08	112.70158   -56.68758  18.69
http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts/alert/Gaia19dfl/
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Note: blue transient observed within 12 hours from S190727h

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.