TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 2660 [ 2016TNSTR.412....1T ]

Date Received (UTC): 2016-06-09 11:14:25
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: SN 2016csr
Discoverer internal name: ATLAS16bcm
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 15:14:31.036 (228.629315) DEC = +06:41:14.28 (6.68729875)
Discovery date: 2016-06-04 09:40:19.000 (JD=2457543.9029977)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2016-06-04 09:40:19.000
Flux: 18.69 ABMag
Filter: cyan-ATLAS
Instrument: ATLAS-02
Telescope: ATLAS Haleakala

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2016-05-29 10:56:38
Limiting flux: 19.53 ABMag
Filter: cyan-ATLAS
Instrument: ATLAS-02
Telescope: ATLAS Haleakala


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