TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 26397 SUBJECT: LIGO/Virgo S191205ah: Gaia Photometric Alerts transient candidates DATE: 19/12/12 17:52:26 GMT FROM: Deepak Eappachen at SRON Netherlands Z. Kostrzewa-Rutkowska (Leiden Observatory), D. Eappachen (SRON/RU), S. Hodgkin, A. Delgado, D.L. Harrison, M.van Leeuwen, G. Rixon, A. Yoldas (IoA Cambridge), P.G. Jonker(SRON/RU) on behalf of Gaia Alerts team report the discovery of a transient candidates within the probability skymap of S191205ah(LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration GCN 26350): --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name TNSid Date [TCB] RaDeg DecDeg AlertMag URL ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gaia19fmm AT2019wfa 2019-12-09T13:11:48. 326.25358 9.12383 18.21 http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts/alert/Gaia19fmm/ Gaia19fmq AT2019wjv 2019-12-10T11:05:29. 178.33808 -57.66511 18.60 http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts/alert/Gaia19fmq/ Gaia19fmi AT2019wjr 2019-12-10T04:51:50 165.04092 -45.27869. 16.25 http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts/alert/Gaia19fmi/ Gaia19fmo AT2019wju 2019-12-10T06:35:55 318.35655 -24.05087 18.84 http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts/alert/Gaia19fmo/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Notes: Gaia19fmm- candidate SN near galaxy 2MASX J21450093+0907205 Gaia19fmq- candidate SN near galaxy WISEA J115321.43-573952.2 Gaia19fmi - apparently hostless blue transient Gaia19fmo - candidate SN near galaxy 2MASX J21132548-2403004 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 acknowledges funding from the Netherlands Research School for Astronomy (NOVA). DE, and PGJ acknowledge support from the European Research Council under ERC Consolidator Grant agreement no 647208.