TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 243308 [ 2025TNSTR.460....1O ]

Date Received (UTC): 2025-02-03 10:07:10
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 2025asu
Discoverer internal name: GOTO25aac
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 09:34:50.002 (143.708343) DEC = -02:48:13.22 (-2.803673)
Discovery date: 2025-01-29 01:13:05.664 (JD=2460704.550757)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2025-01-29 01:13:05.664
Flux: 19.85 ABMag
Filter: L-GOTO
Instrument: GOTO-1
Telescope: GOTO-North

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2025-01-27 13:06:37
Limiting flux: 19.6 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/2025asu