Difference: GCNCIRCULAR21624 (1 vs. 2)

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A. J. Castro-Tirado (IAA-CSIC and ISA-UMA), J. C. Tello, Y. Hu, A. González-Rodríguez, B.-B. Zhang, R. Cunniffe (IAA-CSIC), W. Lee, D. Hiriart (UNAM), S. Jeong and I. H. Park (SKKU), on behalf of a larger collaboration report:

In response to the LIGO/Virgo binary neutron star candidate G298048 on Aug 17 (GCNC 21509), we used the JGT 0.6m robotic telescope at the BOOTES-5 station at Observatorio Nacional de San Pedro Mártir (México) to image the 15 galaxies in the GLADE Catalogue (GCN 21516) starting on Aug 18.21 UT. The potential optical candidate (GCN 21529) was only imaged on Aug 19.21 UT, with the images quality being affected by the very high airmass and the twilight sky. The optical candidate (SS17a) is only barely visible in the outskirts of the NGC 4993 galaxy. A more detailed analysis of the data is in progress.

-- DeepChatterjee - 20 Aug 2017