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Robin Leadbeater
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Hi Nick,

Yes the Fermi coordinate uncertainty left a lot of sky to search but one of the papers in Gary’s reference describes how this was managed by one of the teams.

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aa8edf/meta

Remarkably the combined data from the three operational GW detectors constrained the location considerably (and more accurately) compared with just the Fermi data. (fig 1 in the above paper). The DLT40 supernova survey team then prioritised  imaging their 20 target galaxies which fell in that region. 

Robin