TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 248037 [ 2025TNSTR.975....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2025-03-13 20:26:41
Date made public:
Sender: YSE_DECam
Reporting Group: YSE     Discovery Data Source: YSE

C. T. Murphey, G. Nair, G. Narayan (UIUC), R. J. Foley (UCSC), A. Rest (JHU, STScI), D. O. Jones (UH, IfA), K. de Soto (Harvard, CfA), C. Ni (KITP), H. Perkins (UIUC), K. Patra (UCSC), C. Ransome, Y. Dong (Harvard, CfA), Y. Chen (U Toronto), K. Auchettl (U. Melbourne, UCSC), K. Taggert (UCSC), C. Kilpatrick (Northwestern), A. Zenteno, W. Liu, K. Vivas (NOIRLab), S. Sharief (U. Montreal), A. Wasserman, M. Verrico, A. Agarwal (UIUC), Q. Wang (STScI, MIT), R. Angulo (JHU, STScI), H. Abunemeh, N. Earl, K. D. French, A. Mitra, J. O'Brien, M. Shepherd (UIUC), M. Grayling, E. Hayes, K. S. Mandel (Cambridge), D. Farías, C. Gall, A. Hajela, J. Hjorth, L. Izzo, D. Langeroodi, A. Sedgewick, R. Wojtak (DARK, NBI), S. Raimunda (DARK, NBI, U. Southampton), A. Gagliano, S. Gomez, S. Rankin, V. A. Villar, A. Tartaglia, A. Nugent, S. K. Yadavalli (Harvard, CfA), S. Smartt, K. Smith (QUB, Oxford), D. Coulter, J. Pierel, M. Seibert (STScI), P. Arunachalam, K. W. Davis, R. Kaur, P. Macias, C. Rojas-Bravo, E. Ramirez-Ruiz (UCSC), K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, E. G. Magnier, R. J. Wainscoat (UH, IfA), M. Drout (U. Toronto), V. Baldasarre, A. Messick (WSU), C. Angus (QUB), S. Thorpe (Stockholm U.), Y.-C. Pan (NCU) report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2024ahyy
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 03:31:34.221 (52.892587) DEC = -28:24:45.37 (-28.412603)
Discovery date: 2024-12-02 19:35:00.000 (JD=2460647.3159722)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-12-02 19:35:00.000
Flux: 23.171 ABMag
Filter: i-Sloan
Instrument: DECAM
Telescope: CTIO - 4-m Victor M. Blanco Telescope

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2024-11-26 23:37:10
Limiting flux: 24.1438 ABMag
Filter: i-Sloan
Instrument: DECAM
Telescope: CTIO - 4-m Victor M. Blanco Telescope


Archival info: Other

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