TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 245029 [ 2025TNSTR.671....1O ]

Date Received (UTC): 2025-02-19 13:22:49
Date made public:
Sender: GOTO_bot
Reporting Group: GOTO     Discovery Data Source: GOTO

D. O'Neill, G. Ramsay, K. Ackley, M. Dyer, F. Jiménez-Ibarra, J. Lyman, K. Ulaczyk, D. Steeghs, D. Galloway, V. Dhillon, P. O'Brien, 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 2025bzw
Discoverer internal name: GOTO25aln
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 12:16:08.307 (184.034614) DEC = -40:30:34.07 (-40.509463)
Discovery date: 2025-02-19 12:21:42.048 (JD=2460726.015071)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2025-02-19 12:21:42.048
Flux: 18.96 ABMag
Filter: L-GOTO
Instrument: GOTO-4
Telescope: GOTO-South

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2025-02-17 12:48:39
Limiting flux: 19.2 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/2025bzw