TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 204060 [ 2024TNSTR.580....1H ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-03-02 23:34:30
Date made public:
Sender: DESIRT_Bot
Reporting Group: DESIRT     Discovery Data Source: DESIRT

Lei Hu (Carnegie Mellon U.), Brendan O'Connor (Carnegie Mellon U.), Antonella Palmese (Carnegie Mellon U.), Yuhan Chen (UC Berkeley), Aidan Catalano (Carnegie Mellon U.), Xingzhuo Chen (Texas A&M U.), Lifan Wang (Texas A&M U.), Tomás Cabrera (Carnegie Mellon U.), Keerthi Kunnumkai (Carnegie Mellon U.), Konstantin Malanchev (Carnegie Mellon U.), Veronica Diaz (Carnegie Mellon U.) on behalf of DESIRT Collaboration report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2023adcj
Discoverer internal name: T202312141101100m052631
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 11:01:10.018 (165.29174239487) DEC = -05:26:30.95 (-5.4419303205217)
Discovery date: 2023-12-14 07:14:53.664 (JD=2460292.8020114)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2023-12-14 07:14:53.664
Flux: 21.2608 ABMag
Filter: g-Sloan
Instrument: DECAM
Telescope: CTIO - 4-m Victor M. Blanco Telescope

Last non-detection:
Archival info: Other
Remarks: DECam Legacy Survey

Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2023adcj