Discovery certificate for object 2023acsn
TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 203697 [ 2024TNSTR.580....1H ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-03-02 23:34:30
Sender: DECam Survey for Intermediate Redshift Transients (DESIRT_Bot)
Reporting Group: DESIRT     Discovery Data Source: DESIRT

Lei Hu (Carnegie Mellon U.), Brendan O'Connor (Carnegie Mellon U.), Antonella Palmese (Carnegie Mellon U.), Yuhan Chen (UC Berkeley), Aidan Catalano (Carnegie Mellon U.), Xingzhuo Chen (Texas A&M U.), Lifan Wang (Texas A&M U.), Tomás Cabrera (Carnegie Mellon U.), Keerthi Kunnumkai (Carnegie Mellon U.), Konstantin Malanchev (Carnegie Mellon U.), Veronica Diaz (Carnegie Mellon U.) on behalf of DESIRT Collaboration report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2023acsn
Discoverer internal name: C202302141055096m064720
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 10:55:09.586 (163.78994167317921) DEC = -06:47:19.50 (-6.788750237240331)
Discovery date: 2023-02-14 08:06:03.456 (JD=2459989.837539618)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2023-02-14 08:06:03.456
Flux: 19.0707 ABMag
Filter: z-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/2023acsn