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GCN Circular 20781

Subject
LIGO/Virgo G275697: CNEOST optical observations
Date
2017-03-01T07:06:59Z (8 years ago)
From
Dong Xu at NAO/CAS <dxu@nao.cas.cn>
B. Li, H.B. Zhao (PMO/CAS), D. Xu (NAO/CAS), G.T. Zhaori, H. Lu, R.Q. 
Hong, L.F. Hu (PMO/CAS), T.M. Zhang, X. Zhou, H.X. Feng, Z.P. Zhu 
(NAO/CAS), J.Z. Liu, H.B. Niu, Y. Zhang, X. Zhang, G.X. Pu, S.G. Ma,T.Z. 
Yang, F.F. Song (XAO/CAS), J. Mao, J.M. Bai (YNAO/CAS) report on behalf 
of the GWFUNC collaboration:

We have performed tiled observations of LIGO/Virgo G275697 (LVC, GCN 
20763) using the 1-m Chinese Near Earth Object Survey Telescope (CNEOST) 
at Xuyi, Jiangsu, China.

CNEOST carried out observations during 11:29:44.6 UT - 14:51:15.1 UT on 
2017-02-28 in the Sloan r-filter. The imaging coverage on top of the GW 
probability map is at

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3665676/G275697/skymapG275697CNEOST.pdf

and the limiting magnitude varied from m(r)~16 to ~20 mag due to weather 
variation.

Preliminary analysis doesn't reveal credible optical transients except 
supernovae discovered prior to the G275697 trigger time.
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