TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 25223 SUBJECT: LIGO/Virgo S190727h: Gaia Photometric Alerts transient candidate DATE: 19/07/30 14:23:36 GMT FROM: Deepak Eappachen at SRON Netherlands Z. Kostrzewa-Rutkowska, 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 candidate within the probability skymap of S190727h (LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration GCN 25164): --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name TNSid Date [TCB] RaDeg DecDeg AlertMag URL ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gaia19dfl AT2019lyg 2019-07-27T17:34:08 112.70158 -56.68758 18.69 http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts/alert/Gaia19dfl/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note: blue transient observed within 12 hours from S190727h 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.