TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 208701 [ 2024TNSTR1261....1P ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-04-29 18:53:06
Date made public:
Sender: GW-MMADS_bot
Reporting Group: GW-MMADS     Discovery Data Source: GW-MMADS

Antonella Palmese (CMU), Tomás Cabrera (CMU), Lei Hu (CMU), Igor Andreoni (UMD), Brendan O’Connor (CMU), Robert Stein (Caltech), Michael Coughlin (UMN), Theo Jegou Du Laz (Caltech), Keerthi Kunnumkai (CMU), on behalf of GW-MMADS report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2024hmm
Discoverer internal name: T202404240830378m244246
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 08:30:37.842 (127.65767394151) DEC = -24:42:46.13 (-24.712814430516)
Discovery date: 2024-04-24 00:22:27.689 (JD=2460424.5155983)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-04-24 00:22:27.689
Flux: 23.105 ABMag
Filter: r-Sloan
Instrument: DECAM
Telescope: CTIO - 4-m Victor M. Blanco Telescope

Last non-detection:
Archival info: Other
Remarks: No non-detections prior to first detection in alert stream

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