Discovery certificate for object 2019yty
TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 56591 [ 2019TNSTR2721....1J ]

Date Received (UTC): 2019-12-28 18:54:43
Sender: Young Supernova Experiment (YSE_Bot1)
Reporting Group: Pan-STARRS     Discovery Data Source: Pan-STARRS

D. O. Jones (UC Santa Cruz), K. D. French (Carnegie, Illinois), A. Agnello, C. R. Angus, Z. Ansari, N. Arendse, C. Gall, C. Grillo, S. H. Bruun, C. Hede, J. Hjorth, L. Izzo, H. Korhonen, S. Raimundo, D. Kodi Ramanah, A. Sarangi, R. Wojtak (DARK, U Copenhagen), K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, E. A. Magnier, T. J. L. de Boer, J. R. Fairlamb, C. C. Lin, R. J. Wainscoat, T. Lowe, M. Willman, J. Bulger, A. S. B. Schultz (IfA, Hawaii), A. Engel, A. Gagliano, G. Narayan, M. Soraisam (Illinois), Q. Wang (JHU), A. Rest (JHU, STScI), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith (Queen's University Belfast), K. Alexander, A. Baldeschi, P. Blanchard, D. Coppejans, L. DeMarchi, A. Hajela, W. Jacobson-Galan, R. Margutti, D. Matthews, C. Stauffer, M. Stroh, G. Terreran (Northwestern), M. Drout (U Toronto), D. A. Coulter, G. Dimitriadis, R. J. Foley, T. Hung, C. D. Kilpatrick, C. Rojas-Bravo, M. R. Siebert (UC Santa Cruz), K. Auchettl, E. Ramirez-Ruiz (UC Santa Cruz, DARK) report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2019yty
Discoverer internal name: PS19ixf
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 10:35:53.657 (158.973572072) DEC = -04:49:02.50 (-4.81736184548)
Discovery date: 2019-12-27 14:02:24.000 (JD=2458845.085)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2019-12-27 14:02:24.000
Flux: 20.99 ABMag
Filter: g-P1
Instrument: GPC1
Telescope: Pan-STARRS1

Last non-detection:
Archival info: DSS

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