TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 36894 [ 2019TNSTR.917....1D ]

Date Received (UTC): 2019-06-03 12:48:30
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 2019guz
Discoverer internal name: Gaia19cbd
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 05:03:51.030 (75.962625) DEC = +85:28:30.22 (85.475061)
Discovery date: 2019-05-31 14:24:00.000 (JD=2458635.1)


Remarks: blue source brightens by 0.6 mag over 4 months, coincident with GALEX 2746467921825891481

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2019-05-31 14:24:00.000
Flux: 18.97 ABMag
Filter: G-Gaia
Instrument: Gaia-photometric
Telescope: Gaia Spacecraft

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2018-11-20 11:47:02
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/2019guz