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GCN Circular 18338

Subject
LIGO/Virgo G184098: Observations from the TOROS collaboration
Date
2015-09-20T01:42:09Z (9 years ago)
From
Mario Diaz at U of Texas <mario@phys.utb.edu>
Carlos Colazo, Diego Garcia Lambas,  Bruno Sanchez, Mariano Dominguez (Astronomical Observatory of Cordoba), and
Martin Beroiz, Tania Pe����uela and Mario C. Diaz (U of Texas, Rio Grande Valley) on behalf of the TOROS team reports:

The TOROS collaboration observed for a few hours Wednesday Sep 16 and Thursday Sep 17 at the
Bosque Alegre Astrophysical Station (located in Cordoba province).
Two instruments were used the 1.5 m reflector with a FOV 22��<80><99>X14��<80><99>
with a limiting magnitude of ~20 and a 0.40 cm reflector with a 0.5x0.5 deg FOV.
Due to the limited FOV instead of performing systematic surveys of regions
within a given error a few objects were followed for some time.

For Sept 16:
 These are for the 1.5 m:

Object  RAJ2000[h] DecJ2000[deg] AppMag
IC1933  3.42774   -52.78547      12.5
NGC1529 4.12222   -62.89993      14.52
IC2038  4.14835   -55.99074      14.3
IC2039  4.15066   -56.01172      14.93

With the 0.40 cm (Toritos) the following was followed:

PGC383392 3.98036 -57.98515 16.96

For Sep 17
Toritos Telescope 0.4m
Number  Object          RAJ2000 DecJ2000        Lim Mag.        FoV     Filter
1       ESO057-080      6.38592 -68.7328        18.5            30��<80><99>x30��<80><99> Clear
2       ESO085-030      5.02499 -63.29273       18.5            30��<80><99>x30��<80><99> Clear
3       IC2049          4.20121 -58.5573        18.5            30��<80><99>x30��<80><99> Clear
4       IC2056          4.27348 -60.20683       18.5            30��<80><99>x30��<80><99> Clear
5       NGC1809         5.03488 -69.56724       18.5            30��<80><99>x30��<80><99> Clear
6       NGC1892         5.28585 -64.95983       18.5            30��<80><99>x30��<80><99> Clear
7       NGC2187         6.06456 -69.57743       18.5            30��<80><99>x30��<80><99> Clear

EABA 1.54m
Number  Object          RAJ2000 DecJ2000        FoV     Filter
1       ESO058-018      6.83959 -71.03123       12��<80><99>x8��<80><99>  Clear
2       ESO084-015      4.37003 -63.61097       12��<80><99>x8��<80><99>  Clear
3       ESO119-005      4.80483 -60.29376       12��<80><99>x8��<80><99>  Clear
4       NGC1559         4.29326 -62.78358       12��<80><99>x8��<80><99>  Clear
5       PGC128075       4.32400 -60.53844       12��<80><99>x8��<80><99>  Clear
6       PGC381152       4.23897 -58.20726       12��<80><99>x8��<80><99>  Clear
7       PGC075108       4.24469 -58.13199       12��<80><99>x8��<80><99>  Clear
8       PGC016318       4.91526 -61.56747       12��<80><99>x8��<80><99>  Clear
9       PGC269445       6.68061 -71.33026       12��<80><99>x8��<80><99>  Clear
10      PGC280995       6.4255  -69.15257       12��<80><99>x8��<80><99>  Clear

A crew from OAC has started preparation to start the follow-up campaign for
O1 at the Macon site (Atacama region), but it was not ready for G184098.
The analysis has not been completed yet.

[GCN OPS NOTE(19sep15): This Circular was originally published on 03:29 18-Sep-2015 UT.]
[GCN OPS NOTE(19sep15): The Sept 17 results were added to the original posting about ? day later.]
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