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GCN Circular 21531

Subject
LIGO/Virgo G298048: DLT40 optical candidate
Date
2017-08-18T01:41:13Z (7 years ago)
From
Stefano Valenti at UC Davis <stfn.valenti@gmail.com>
Sheng Yang (INAF-OAPd, UC Davis), Stefano Valenti(UC Davis), David Sand 
(UA), Leonardo Tartaglia (UA, UC Davis), Enrico Cappellaro(INAF-OAPd), 
Dan Reichart, Josh Haislip Vladimir Kouprianov (UNC)

We report the discovery of DLT17ck. The object was discovered on 
2017-08-17.99 UT at R~17.3 mag, during the ongoing D<40 Mpc (DLT40) one 
day cadence supernova search, using data from the PROMPT 5 0.41m 
telescope located at CTIO. A confirmation image was obtained on 
2017-08-18.02 UT with the PROMPT telescope.  DLT17ck is located at RA: 
13:09:48.09 Dec: -23:22:53.4.6,  5.37 W, 8.60 S arcsec offset from the 
center of the host galaxy, NGC 4993,
consistent with the source found by Coulter et al. (LVC GCN 21529).
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