TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 244586 [ 2025TNSTR.624....1O ]

Date Received (UTC): 2025-02-16 16:14:55
Date made public:
Sender: GOTO_bot
Reporting Group: GOTO     Discovery Data Source: GOTO

D. O'Neill, G. Ramsay, K. Ackley, M. Dyer, F. Jiménez-Ibarra, J. Lyman, K. Ulaczyk, D. Steeghs, D. Galloway, V. Dhillon, P. O'Brien, 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 2025bsw
Discoverer internal name: GOTO25ais
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 08:57:16.732 (134.319716) DEC = -07:25:33.54 (-7.425983)
Discovery date: 2025-02-16 12:16:02.496 (JD=2460723.011141)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2025-02-16 12:16:02.496
Flux: 19.02 ABMag
Filter: L-GOTO
Instrument: GOTO-4
Telescope: GOTO-South

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2025-02-15 00:08:37
Limiting flux: 17.8 ABMag
Filter: L-GOTO
Instrument: GOTO-2
Telescope: GOTO-North


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