Discovery certificate for object 2024ymt
TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 229623 [ 2024TNSTR4076....1J ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-10-20 04:16:28
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 2024ymt
Discoverer internal name: PS24jxq
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 17:23:40.003 (260.916680787) DEC = +36:30:33.10 (36.5091935885)
Discovery date: 2024-10-06 05:26:58.848 (JD=2460589.72707)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-10-06 05:26:58.848
Flux: 20.5 ABMag
Filter: g-P1
Instrument: GPC2
Telescope: Pan-STARRS2

Last non-detection:
Archival info: DSS

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