TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 227771 [ 2024TNSTR3869....1O ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-10-05 10:33:58
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 2024xir
Discoverer internal name: GOTO24gtq
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 21:56:56.374 (329.234892) DEC = -81:05:55.28 (-81.098688)
Discovery date: 2024-10-05 10:09:54.720 (JD=2460588.923545)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-10-05 10:09:54.720
Flux: 19.51 ABMag
Filter: L-GOTO
Instrument: GOTO-4
Telescope: GOTO-South

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2024-09-30 09:05:33
Limiting flux: 18.8 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/2024xir