TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 243748 [ 2025TNSTR.516....1A ]

Date Received (UTC): 2025-02-07 23:04:04
Date made public:
Sender: GOTO_bot
Reporting Group: GOTO     Discovery Data Source: GOTO

K. Ackley, D. O'Neill, 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 2025bav
Discoverer internal name: GOTO25adv
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 10:38:40.710 (159.669623) DEC = -28:14:29.32 (-28.241478)
Discovery date: 2025-02-07 15:32:25.728 (JD=2460714.147517)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2025-02-07 15:32:25.728
Flux: 20.58 ABMag
Filter: L-GOTO
Instrument: GOTO-4
Telescope: GOTO-South

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2025-02-07 15:17:19
Limiting flux: 20.7 ABMag
Filter: L-GOTO
Instrument: GOTO-4
Telescope: GOTO-South


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