TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 209097 [ 2024TNSTR1329....1C ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-05-02 16:09:01
Date made public:
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Reporting Group: GW-MMADS     Discovery Data Source: GW-MMADS

Tomás Cabrera (CMU), Antonella Palmese (CMU), Lei Hu (CMU), Brendan O'Connor (CMU), Igor Andreoni (UMD), Robert Stein (Caltech), Tomás Ahumada (Caltech) report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2024huz
Discoverer internal name: T202404230809168m293932
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 08:09:16.836 (122.3201500849) DEC = -29:39:31.97 (-29.658881087005)
Discovery date: 2024-04-23 00:02:52.169 (JD=2460423.5019927)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-04-23 00:02:52.169
Flux: 20.8351 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/2024huz