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GCN Circular 25967

Subject
LIGO/Virgo S190930t: Magellan/IMACS imaging of Swift J224718-581442 (AT2019sbk)
Date
2019-10-07T08:01:49Z (5 years ago)
From
Subo Dong at KIAA-PKU <dongsubo@pku.edu.cn>
Ping Chen (KIAA, Peking University),  Joshua D. Simon (Carnegie Observatories), and Subo Dong (KIAA, Peking University) report:

We observed the transient Swift J224718-581442 (AT2019sbk) (Tohuvavohu et al., GCN Circ. 25964), which was discovered in the UVOT and XRT search for the electromagnetic counterpart of LIGO/Virgo S190930t (LIGO/Virgo Collaboration GCN Circ. 25876). 

On 2019-Oct-07.14 UTC (JD = 2458763.64), we obtained g���-band (90s exposure) and i���-band (60s exposure) images with IMACS mounted on the 6.5 meter Magellan telescope at Las Campanas Observatory. We do not detect the source at the reported position (RA = 22:47:18.1 Dec = -58:14:50.80) in these images with approximate 3-sigma upper limits of ~22.4 mag in g���-band and ~22.9 mag in i���-band, respectively.
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