TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 243560 [ 2025TNSTR.493....1O ]

Date Received (UTC): 2025-02-05 17:28:11
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 2025ayg
Discoverer internal name: GOTO25wv
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 01:54:26.156 (28.608985) DEC = +08:58:25.87 (8.973854)
Discovery date: 2025-01-27 20:41:28.896 (JD=2460703.362137)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2025-01-27 20:41:28.896
Flux: 19.14 ABMag
Filter: L-GOTO
Instrument: GOTO-2
Telescope: GOTO-North

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2025-01-17 21:04:17
Limiting flux: 19.3 ABMag
Filter: L-GOTO
Instrument: GOTO-2
Telescope: GOTO-North


Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2025ayg