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GCN Circular 21619

Subject
LIGO/Virgo G298048: TOROS optical counterpart search
Date
2017-08-20T14:48:49Z (7 years ago)
From
Martin Bernoiz at TOROS <martinberoiz@gmail.com>
Mario Diaz(UTRGV/CGWA), Diego Garcia Lambas(IATE), Lucas Macri(TAMU), Jose Luis Nilo Castellon

To scan the LVC uncertainty region for G298048 we pointed to 
14 targets covered in 6 pointings with telescope at La Serena, Chile, filter i, 2 sq deg FoV, 60s integration time.
The pointing centers are:

14:00:52.21,-48:23:31.8,2000.
14:12:08.50,-52:43:29.8,2000.
14:06:20.01,-51:04:30.7,2000.
14:05:12.66,-53:17:24.3,2000.
14:19:17.56,-55:22:04.4,2000.
14:18:58.06,-57:59:06.6,2000.

Targets covered:
PGC141857 : 14:10:33.6,-52:19:02,20"  
ESO221-030 : 14:10:41.1,-52:11:04,20" 
PGC448694  : 14:10:37.0,-52:06:06,20" 
PGC166335 : 14:16:02.0,-53:43:00,20"
PGC2800412 :  14:17:10.1,-55:32:39,20" 
ESO175-002 :  14:08:36.0,-53:21:10,20"
ESO221-028 : 14:09:02.2,-51:10:08,20"
ESO271-003 : 13:52:27.5,-43:52:53,20" 
PGC463082  : 14:03:29.3,-50:46:38,20"
ESO221-035 : 14:16:04.6,-52:36:31,20"
PGC141859 :  14:20:23.5,-55:04:08,20" 
PGC485499 :  14:03:11.9,-48:37:39,20"
ESO271-005 :  13:56:08.4,-45:39:34,20"
PGC166323 : 14:04:34.1,-52:41:50,20���

The observations started on 2017-08-17T01:37:00 UT and ended on 2017-08-17T04:42:00 UT.

Martin Beroiz (UTRGV) on behalf of the TOROS Collaboration.
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