TITLE: GCN CIRCULAR NUMBER: 26686 SUBJECT: LIGO/Virgo S200105ae: Gaia Photometric Alerts transient candidate DATE: 20/01/09 14:36:23 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 candidate within the probability skymap of S200105ae(LIGO/VIRGO Collaboration GCN 26640): --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name TNSid Date [TCB] RaDeg DecDeg AlertMag URL --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gaia20add AT2020oo 2020-01-06T04:17:32 259.77575 25.45562 18.52 http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts/alert/Gaia20add/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note: Gaia20add - candidate SN near galaxy SDSS J171905.38+252718.1 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.