[vsnet-grb-info 24587] LIGO/Virgo S200105ae: Gaia Photometric Alerts transient candidate

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  26686
SUBJECT: LIGO/Virgo S200105ae: Gaia Photometric Alerts transient candidate
DATE:    20/01/09 14:36:23 GMT
FROM:    Deepak Eappachen at SRON Netherlands  <d.eappachen at sron.nl>

Z. Kostrzewa-Rutkowska (Leiden Observatory), 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 
S200105ae(LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration GCN 26640):

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Name      TNSid    	Date [TCB]       RaDeg     DecDeg    AlertMag URL
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Gaia20add AT2020oo 2020-01-06T04:17:32  259.77575   25.45562 18.52
http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts/alert/Gaia20add/

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Note:  Gaia20add - candidate SN near galaxy SDSS J171905.38+252718.1

		 
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 acknowledges funding 
from the Netherlands Research School for Astronomy (NOVA). DE, and PGJ
acknowledge support from the European Research Council under ERC
Consolidator Grant agreement no 647208.