TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 176722 [ 2023TNSTR1000....1T ]

Date Received (UTC): 2023-05-03 08:29:24
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 2023hpc
Discoverer internal name: ATLAS23jxd
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 03:59:53.692 (59.9737183333) DEC = -84:05:33.57 (-84.0926583333)
Discovery date: 2023-05-02 16:54:19.296 (JD=2460067.20439)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2023-05-02 16:54:19.296
Flux: 16.819 ABMag
Filter: orange-ATLAS
Instrument: ATLAS-03
Telescope: ATLAS Sutherland

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2023-04-26 19:27:15
Limiting flux: 17.05 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/2023hpc