TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 6734 [ 2016TNSTR.920....1D ]

Date Received (UTC): 2016-11-15 15:36:26
Date made public:
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Reporting Group: GaiaAlerts     Discovery Data Source: GaiaAlerts

A. Delgado, D. Harrison, S. Hodgkin, M. van Leeuwen, G. Rixon, A. Yoldas (University of Cambridge), on behalf of Gaia Alerts team report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2016ice
Discoverer internal name: Gaia16bub
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 20:00:57.950 (300.241458) DEC = -11:11:23.64 (-11.1899)
Discovery date: 2016-11-12 04:33:36.000 (JD=2457704.69)


Remarks: bright candidate SN in faint SDSS galaxy GS-TEC predicts SN Ia at t=-3

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2016-11-12 04:33:36.000
Flux: 15.9 ABMag
Filter: G-Gaia
Instrument: Gaia-photometric
Telescope: Gaia Spacecraft

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2016-10-14 10:53:45
Limiting flux: 21.5 ABMag
Filter: G-Gaia
Instrument: Gaia-photometric
Telescope: Gaia Spacecraft


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