TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 186136 [ 2023TNSTR2071....1C ]

Date Received (UTC): 2023-08-25 23:49:29
Date made public:
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Reporting Group: DESIRT     Discovery Data Source: DESIRT

Aidan Catalano (Carnegie Mellon U.), Brendan O'Connor (Carnegie Mellon U.), Antonella Palmese (Carnegie Mellon U.), Xingzhuo Chen (Texas A&M U.), Lei Hu (Carnegie Mellon U.), Lifan Wang (Texas A&M U.), Tomás Cabrera (Carnegie Mellon U.), Keerthi Kunnumkai (Carnegie Mellon U.), Konstantin Malanchev (Carnegie Mellon U.), Lauren Aldoroty (Texas A&M U.), Segev BenZvi (U. of Rochester), Jiawen Yang (Texas A&M U.), Igor Andreoni (U. of Maryland), Dietrich Baade (ESO), Dillon Brout (Boston U.), Ryan Chornock (UC Berkeley), Jeffery Cooke (Swinburne U.), Tamara Davis (U. of Queensland), Kyle Dawson (The University of Utah), Melissa Graham (University of Washington), Alex Kim (LBNL), Robert Knop (LBNL), Anton Koekemoer (STSci), Raffaella Margutti (UC Berkeley), Jeremy Mould (Swinburne U.), Peter Nugent (LBNL), Ferdinando Patat (ESO), Troy Joseph Raen (U. of Pittsburgh), David Schlegel, (LBNL), William Sheu (UCLA), Michael Wood-Vasey (U. of Pittsburgh) report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2022aepq
Discoverer internal name: T202204211506557p073253
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 15:06:55.739 (226.73224618) DEC = +07:32:53.50 (7.54819335)
Discovery date: 2022-04-21 07:30:48.384 (JD=2459690.8130574)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2022-04-21 07:30:48.384
Flux: 19.7818 ABMag
Filter: r-Sloan
Instrument: DECAM
Telescope: CTIO - 4-m Victor M. Blanco Telescope

Last non-detection:
Archival info: Other
Remarks: DECam Legacy Survey

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