TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 237167 [ 2024TNSTR5066....1O ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-12-25 16:42:11
Date made public:
Sender: GOTO_bot
Reporting Group: GOTO     Discovery Data Source: GOTO

D. O'Neill, K. Ackley, M. Dyer, F. Jiménez-Ibarra, J. Lyman, K. Ulaczyk, D. Steeghs, D. Galloway, V. Dhillon, P. O'Brien, G. Ramsay, K. Noysena, R. Kotak, R. Breton, L. Nuttall, E. Pallé, D. Pollacco, T. Killestein, A. Kumar, on behalf of GOTO collaboration report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2024aeyb
Discoverer internal name: GOTO24jkb
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 06:24:38.946 (96.162273) DEC = -72:41:08.26 (-72.685629)
Discovery date: 2024-12-19 10:49:10.848 (JD=2460663.950816)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-12-19 10:49:10.848
Flux: 19.36 ABMag
Filter: L-GOTO
Instrument: GOTO-3
Telescope: GOTO-South

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2024-12-15 10:31:48
Limiting flux: 19.1 ABMag
Filter: L-GOTO
Instrument: GOTO-3
Telescope: GOTO-South


Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2024aeyb