TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 170694 [ 2023TNSTR.328....1H ]

Date Received (UTC): 2023-02-10 05:36:15
Date made public:
Sender: Lei Hu
Reporting Group: None     Discovery Data Source: None

Lei Hu (Purple Mountain Observatory), Lifan Wang (Texas A&M U.) report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2022aejk
Discoverer internal name: Abell2744-R2-13557
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 00:14:21.395 (3.589147724) DEC = -30:23:37.67 (-30.39379763)
Discovery date: 2022-12-06 10:18:40.000 (JD=2459919.9296296)


Remarks: We report on the detection of a transient candidate in NIRCam observations of Abell 2744 galaxy-cluster field taken on December 6, 2022 (UT) by the JWST DDT program 2756 (PI: Wenlei Chen).

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2022-12-06 10:18:40.000
Flux: 29.04 ABMag
Filter: F150W-JWST
Instrument: NIRCam
Telescope: James Webb Space Telescope

Last non-detection:
Archival info: DSS

Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2022aejk