TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 236996 [ 2024TNSTR5047....1O ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-12-24 12:00:31
Date made public:
Sender: GOTO_bot
Reporting Group: GOTO     Discovery Data Source: GOTO

D. O'Neill, K. Ackley, M. Dyer, F. Jiménez-Ibarra, J. Lyman, K. Ulaczyk, D. Steeghs, D. Galloway, V. Dhillon, P. O'Brien, G. Ramsay, K. Noysena, R. Kotak, R. Breton, L. Nuttall, E. Pallé, D. Pollacco, T. Killestein, A. Kumar, on behalf of GOTO collaboration report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2024aevk
Discoverer internal name: GOTO24jga
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 06:51:28.481 (102.868672) DEC = -37:03:10.21 (-37.052835)
Discovery date: 2024-12-19 11:16:03.936 (JD=2460663.969486)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-12-19 11:16:03.936
Flux: 19.38 ABMag
Filter: L-GOTO
Instrument: GOTO-4
Telescope: GOTO-South

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2024-12-15 11:15:24
Limiting flux: 18.7 ABMag
Filter: L-GOTO
Instrument: GOTO-4
Telescope: GOTO-South


Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2024aevk