TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 176330 [ 2023TNSTR.970....1T ]

Date Received (UTC): 2023-04-30 07:43:56
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 2023hec
Discoverer internal name: ATLAS23jta
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 07:40:10.907 (115.0454472) DEC = -71:32:15.96 (-71.5377668)
Discovery date: 2023-04-29 18:48:04.896 (JD=2460064.28339)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2023-04-29 18:48:04.896
Flux: 17.694 ABMag
Filter: orange-ATLAS
Instrument: ATLAS-03
Telescope: ATLAS Sutherland

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2023-04-26 19:45:33
Limiting flux: 16.95 ABMag
Filter: orange-ATLAS
Instrument: ATLAS-03
Telescope: ATLAS Sutherland


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