TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 174616 [ 2023TNSTR.780....1T ]

Date Received (UTC): 2023-04-13 11:47:18
Date made public:
Sender: ATLAS_Bot1
Reporting Group: ATLAS     Discovery Data Source: ATLAS

J. Tonry, L. Denneau, H. Weiland, A. Lawrence, R. Siverd (IfA, University of Hawaii), N. Erasmus, W. Koorts (South African Astronomical Observatory), J. Anderson (ESO), A. Jordan, V. Suc (UAI, Obstech), S. J. Smartt (Oxford/QUB), K. W. Smith, S. Srivastav, D. R. Young, M. Nicholl, M. Fulton, M. McCollum, T. Moore, J. Weston (Queen's University Belfast), L. Shingles (GSI/QUB), A. Rest (STScI), T.-W. Chen (TUM/MPA), C. Stubbs (Harvard), J. Sommer (LMU/QUB), L. Rhodes, A. Andersson (Oxford) report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2023fna
Discoverer internal name: ATLAS23hme
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 00:18:23.366 (4.59735875) DEC = -73:09:25.48 (-73.1570775)
Discovery date: 2023-04-13 09:31:53.760 (JD=2460047.89715)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2023-04-13 09:31:53.760
Flux: 17.824 ABMag
Filter: orange-ATLAS
Instrument: ATLAS-04
Telescope: ATLAS El Sauce

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2023-01-24 01:50:18
Limiting flux: 19.13 ABMag
Filter: orange-ATLAS
Instrument: ATLAS-04
Telescope: ATLAS El Sauce


Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2023fna