TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 23232 [ 2018TNSTR1478....1C ]
Date Received (UTC): 2018-10-01 13:28:55
Sender: Mr. Lei Hu
Reporting Group: None Discovery Data Source: None
Xingzhuo Chen (Sichuan University), Lei Hu (Purple Mountain Observatory), Lifan Wang (Texas A&M U.), Anton Koekemoer (STScI), Jeremy Mould (Swinburne U.), Timothy Abbott (CTIO), Jeffrey Cooke (Swinburne U.), Syed Uddin (Purple Mountain Observatory), Stuart Wyithe (U. of Melbourne), Antonios Katsianis (U. of Melbourne), Edoardo Tescari (U. of Melbourne), Chris Curtin (Swinburne U.), Shahab Joudaki (Swinburne U.) report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.
IAU Designation: AT 2018gzs
Discoverer internal name: DECamERON-20180806cC
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 21:00:37.370 (315.155708) DEC = -66:14:34.20 (-66.242833)
Discovery date: 2018-08-06 07:25:04.000 (JD=2458336.8090741)
Remarks: The SN candidate is discovered from CTIO 4-mDECam data of the program "Superluminous Supernovae in the Epoch of Reionization"
Photometry
Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2018-08-06 07:25:04.000
Flux: 24.5 ABMag
Filter: i-Sloan
Instrument: DECAM
Telescope: CTIO - 4-m Victor M. Blanco Telescope
Remarks: It is detected from stacked image with equivalent exposure time 16830s (51 * 330s) and the obs-date here is the mean value
Last non-detection:
Archival info: SDSS
Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2018gzs
Date Received (UTC): 2018-10-01 13:28:55
Sender: Mr. Lei Hu
Reporting Group: None Discovery Data Source: None
Xingzhuo Chen (Sichuan University), Lei Hu (Purple Mountain Observatory), Lifan Wang (Texas A&M U.), Anton Koekemoer (STScI), Jeremy Mould (Swinburne U.), Timothy Abbott (CTIO), Jeffrey Cooke (Swinburne U.), Syed Uddin (Purple Mountain Observatory), Stuart Wyithe (U. of Melbourne), Antonios Katsianis (U. of Melbourne), Edoardo Tescari (U. of Melbourne), Chris Curtin (Swinburne U.), Shahab Joudaki (Swinburne U.) report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.
IAU Designation: AT 2018gzs
Discoverer internal name: DECamERON-20180806cC
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 21:00:37.370 (315.155708) DEC = -66:14:34.20 (-66.242833)
Discovery date: 2018-08-06 07:25:04.000 (JD=2458336.8090741)
Remarks: The SN candidate is discovered from CTIO 4-mDECam data of the program "Superluminous Supernovae in the Epoch of Reionization"
Photometry
Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2018-08-06 07:25:04.000
Flux: 24.5 ABMag
Filter: i-Sloan
Instrument: DECAM
Telescope: CTIO - 4-m Victor M. Blanco Telescope
Remarks: It is detected from stacked image with equivalent exposure time 16830s (51 * 330s) and the obs-date here is the mean value
Last non-detection:
Archival info: SDSS
Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2018gzs