TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 208570 [ 2024TNSTR1236....1P ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-04-27 21:52:49
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), Robert Stein (Caltech), Michael Coughlin (UMN), Theo Jegou Du Laz (Caltech), Keerthi Kunnumkai (CMU), on behalf of GW-MMADS report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2024hit
Discoverer internal name: T202404230819066m224522
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 08:19:06.589 (124.77745521715) DEC = -22:45:22.21 (-22.756169814587)
Discovery date: 2024-04-23 01:32:17.953 (JD=2460423.5640967)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-04-23 01:32:17.953
Flux: 21.8374 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/2024hit