Pre-discovery detections of MASTER OT J044008.76-651302.3
ATel #13488; Przemek Mroz (Caltech), Mariusz Gromadzki (Warsaw), Andrzej Udalski (Warsaw), on behalf of the OGLE team
on 15 Feb 2020; 19:30 UT
Credential Certification: Przemek Mroz (pmroz@astrouw.edu.pl)
Subjects: Optical, Gravitational Waves, Supernovae, Transient
MASTER OT J044008.76-651302.3 (GCN #27077, ATel #13487) is located in the field LMC542 that is regularly observed by the OGLE survey (Udalski et al. 2015). The object was detected on images taken on 2020-02-04 and 2020-02-12, before the LIGO/Virgo trigger. It is therefore unrelated to S200213t.
I-band magnitudes:
2020-02-04 03:29:43UT 19.61
2020-02-12 01:53:19UT 18.91
