Discovery certificate for object 2024yhy
TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 229428 [ 2024TNSTR4045....1J ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-10-17 02:35:53
Sender: Young Supernova Experiment (YSE_Bot1)
Reporting Group: YSE     Discovery Data Source: Pan-STARRS

D. O. Jones (UC Santa Cruz), K. D. French (Carnegie, Illinois), A. Agnello, C. R. Angus, Z. Ansari, N. Arendse, C. Gall, C. Grillo, S. H. Bruun, C. Hede, J. Hjorth, L. Izzo, H. Korhonen, S. Raimundo, D. Kodi Ramanah, A. Sarangi, R. Wojtak, H. Pfister (DARK, U Copenhagen), K. Auchettl (DARK, UC Santa Cruz, U Melbourne), K. C. Chambers, M. E. Huber, E. A. Magnier, T. J. L. de Boer, J. R. Fairlamb, C. C. Lin, R. J. Wainscoat, T. Lowe, H. Gao, J. Herman, A. S. B. Schultz, P. Minguez (IfA, Hawaii), A. Engel, A. Gagliano, G. Narayan, M. Soraisam (Illinois), Q. Wang (JHU), A. Rest (JHU, STScI), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith (Queen's University Belfast), K. Alexander, P. Blanchard, L. DeMarchi, A. Hajela, W. Jacobson-Galan, R. Margutti, D. Matthews, C. Stauffer, M. Stroh, G. Terreran (Northwestern), M. Drout (U Toronto), D. A. Coulter, G. Dimitriadis, R. J. Foley, T. Hung, C. D. Kilpatrick, C. Rojas-Bravo, M. R. Siebert (UC Santa Cruz), E. Ramirez-Ruiz (UC Santa Cruz, DARK) report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2024yhy
Discoverer internal name: PS24jsx
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 08:00:10.668 (120.044450817) DEC = +38:40:41.00 (38.6780545314)
Discovery date: 2024-10-15 14:51:17.280 (JD=2460599.11895)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-10-15 14:51:17.280
Flux: 20.78 ABMag
Filter: r-P1
Instrument: GPC1
Telescope: Pan-STARRS1

Last non-detection:
Archival info: DSS

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