TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 2652 [ 2016TNSTR.408....1T ]

Date Received (UTC): 2016-06-08 17:47:45
Date made public:
Sender: ATLAS_Bot1
Reporting Group: ATLAS     Discovery Data Source: ATLAS

J. Tonry, L. Denneau, B. Stalder, A. Heinze, A. Sherstyuk (IfA, University of Hawaii), A. Rest (STScI), K. W. Smith, S. J. Smartt (Queen's University Belfast) report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2016csj
Discoverer internal name: ATLAS16bcg
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 13:40:23.589 (205.098287143) DEC = +25:08:50.84 (25.1474557143)
Discovery date: 2016-06-03 08:16:47.000 (JD=2457542.8449884)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2016-06-03 08:16:47.000
Flux: 18.59 ABMag
Filter: cyan-ATLAS
Instrument: ATLAS-02
Telescope: ATLAS Haleakala

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2016-05-28 09:01:26
Limiting flux: 19.2 ABMag
Filter: orange-ATLAS
Instrument: ATLAS-02
Telescope: ATLAS Haleakala


Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2016csj