TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 11491 [ 2017TNSTR.543....1D ]

Date Received (UTC): 2017-05-12 19:26:16
Date made public:
Sender: Gaia_Bot1
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 2017eae
Discoverer internal name: Gaia17beo
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 16:00:29.230 (240.121792) DEC = -67:48:13.79 (-67.803831)
Discovery date: 2017-05-06 09:08:38.000 (JD=2457879.8809954)


Remarks: hostless, blue transient near galactic plane

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2017-05-06 09:08:38.000
Flux: 18.76 ABMag
Filter: G-Gaia
Instrument: Gaia-photometric
Telescope: Gaia Spacecraft

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2017-05-06 07:22:04
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/2017eae