TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 207969 [ 2024TNSTR1114....1P ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-04-18 19:04:37
Date made public:
Sender: GW-MMADS_bot
Reporting Group: GW-MMADS     Discovery Data Source: GW-MMADS

Antonella Palmese (Carnegie Mellon University), Tomás Cabrera (CMU), Lei Hu (CMU), Igor Andreoni (UMD), Brendan O’Connor (CMU), Malte Busmann (LMU), Michael Coughlin (UMN), Theo Jegou Du Laz (Caltech), Saavik Ford (AMNH), Julius Gassert (LMU), Matthew Graham (Caltech), Daniel Gruen (LMU), Keerthi Kunnumkai (CMU), Barry McKernan (AMNH), Julian Sommer (LMU), on behalf of GW-MMADS report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2024gul
Discoverer internal name: T202404161055381p073155
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 10:55:38.128 (163.90886539098) DEC = +07:31:54.88 (7.5319119970801)
Discovery date: 2024-04-16 03:43:01.905 (JD=2460416.6548832)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-04-16 03:43:01.905
Flux: 21.1381 ABMag
Filter: i-Sloan
Instrument: DECAM
Telescope: CTIO - 4-m Victor M. Blanco Telescope

Last non-detection:
Archival info: Other
Remarks: No non-detections prior to first detection in alert stream

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