TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 38880 [ 2019TNSTR1091....1S ]

Date Received (UTC): 2019-06-28 21:35:28
Date made public:
Sender: Krzysztof Stanek
Reporting Group: ASAS-SN     Discovery Data Source: ASAS-SN

K. Z. Stanek, for the ASAS-SN team report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2019ikp
Discoverer internal name: ASASSN-19qo
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 12:12:13.159 (183.05483) DEC = -59:00:29.92 (-59.00831)
Discovery date: 2019-06-23 03:50:24.000 (JD=2458657.66)

Potential host galaxy: PGC 5806890
Host redshift: 0.017

Remarks: Present in several epochs; close to the Galactic plane, so might also be a foreground object, but there is no Vizier match

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2019-06-23 03:50:24.000
Flux: 17.2 ABMag
Filter: g-Sloan
Instrument: Cassius
Telescope: ASASSN-Cassius

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2019-06-12 02:24:00
Limiting flux: 17.5 ABMag
Filter: g-Sloan
Instrument: Paczynski
Telescope: ASASSN-Paczynski


Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2019ikp