TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 208358 [ 2024TNSTR1208....1P ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-04-24 03:22:36
Date made public:
Sender: GW-MMADS_bot
Reporting Group: GW-MMADS     Discovery Data Source: GW-MMADS

Antonella Palmese (CMU), 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 2024hdq
Discoverer internal name: T202404220743147m254551
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 07:43:14.733 (115.81138849286) DEC = -25:45:50.51 (-25.764031866425)
Discovery date: 2024-04-22 23:50:15.764 (JD=2460423.493238)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-04-22 23:50:15.764
Flux: 17.6825 ABMag
Filter: r-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/2024hdq