TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 226031 [ 2024TNSTR3630....1O ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-09-21 16:16:22
Date made public:
Sender: GOTO_bot
Reporting Group: GOTO     Discovery Data Source: GOTO

D. O'Neill, K. Ackley, M. Dyer, F. Jiménez-Ibarra, J. Lyman, K. Ulaczyk, D. Steeghs, D. Galloway, V. Dhillon, P. O'Brien, G. Ramsay, K. Noysena, R. Kotak, R. Breton, L. Nuttall, E. Pallé, D. Pollacco, T. Killestein, A. Kumar, on behalf of GOTO collaboration report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2024vul
Discoverer internal name: GOTO24gcg
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 23:12:37.047 (348.154363) DEC = -07:56:30.91 (-7.941919)
Discovery date: 2024-09-21 14:15:00.000 (JD=2460575.093753)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-09-21 14:15:00.000
Flux: 18.97 ABMag
Filter: L-GOTO
Instrument: GOTO-4
Telescope: GOTO-South

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2024-09-19 16:24:16
Limiting flux: 18.3 ABMag
Filter: L-GOTO
Instrument: GOTO-4
Telescope: GOTO-South


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