TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 242751 [ 2025TNSTR.399....1O ]

Date Received (UTC): 2025-01-29 13:25:34
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 2025ajs
Discoverer internal name: GOTO25wk
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 09:39:09.883 (144.791178) DEC = +04:50:38.30 (4.843971)
Discovery date: 2025-01-29 12:40:38.208 (JD=2460705.028219)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2025-01-29 12:40:38.208
Flux: 19.56 ABMag
Filter: L-GOTO
Instrument: GOTO-4
Telescope: GOTO-South

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2025-01-27 23:34:52
Limiting flux: 19.6 ABMag
Filter: L-GOTO
Instrument: GOTO-1
Telescope: GOTO-North


Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2025ajs