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GCN Circular 24345

Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190425z: Gaia Photometric Alerts transient candidate
Date
2019-04-29T15:58:28Z (6 years ago)
From
Zuzanna Kostrzewa-Rutkowska at SRON <z.p.kostrzewa@sron.nl>
Z. Kostrzewa-Rutkowska (SRON/RU), S. Hodgkin, A. Delgado, D.L. Harrison, M.
van Leeuwen, G. Rixon, A. Yoldas (IoA Cambridge), D. Eappachen, P.G. Jonker
(SRON/RU) on behalf of Gaia Alerts team report the discovery of a transient
candidate within the probability skymap of S190425z (LIGO/VIRGO
Collaboration GCN Circ. 24168):

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Name      TNSid Date [TCB]          RaDeg DecDeg AlertMag URL

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Gaia19bpf AT2019egx 2019-04-28T17:04:25 8.95631 -35.89300  14.38

      http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts/alert/Gaia19bpf/

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Note: outburst of candidate CV ASASSN-14da


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, DE, and PGJ
acknowledge support from the European Research Council under ERC
Consolidator Grant agreement no 647208.
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