TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 195018 [ 2023TNSTR3131....1T ]

Date Received (UTC): 2023-12-05 17:06:02
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), 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, X. Sheng (Queen's University Belfast), A. Aamer (QUB/Birmingham), L. Shingles (GSI/QUB), A. Rest (STScI), T.-W. Chen (NCU), C. Stubbs (Harvard), J. Sommer (LMU/QUB), L. Rhodes, A. Andersson, H. Stevance, S. Ramaiya, J. Gillanders (Oxford) report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2023yxq
Discoverer internal name: ATLAS23wti
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 05:07:54.043 (76.97518) DEC = -33:30:47.86 (-33.5132933333)
Discovery date: 2023-12-05 04:30:31.968 (JD=2460283.68787)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2023-12-05 04:30:31.968
Flux: 20.254 ABMag
Filter: orange-ATLAS
Instrument: ATLAS-04
Telescope: ATLAS El Sauce

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2023-12-03 22:28:08
Limiting flux: 19.48 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/2023yxq