TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 246971 [ 2025TNSTR.912....1X ]

Date Received (UTC): 2025-03-07 12:40:20
Date made public:
Sender: WFST_SN
Reporting Group: WFST     Discovery Data Source: WFST

Zelin Xu, Dezheng Meng, Ji-an Jiang, Weiyu Wu, Zhengyan Liu, Junhan Zhao, Ziqing Jia (USTC) on behalf of the WFST collaboration report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2025dpn
Discoverer internal name: WFST0521ghoy
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 10:41:14.730 (160.311375) DEC = +02:43:21.64 (2.722678)
Discovery date: 2025-02-19 15:46:04.800 (JD=2460726.157)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2025-02-19 15:46:04.800
Flux: 22.22 ABMag
Filter: r-WFST
Instrument: WFST-WFC
Telescope: Wide Field Survey Telescope

Last non-detection:
Archival info: Other
Remarks: The transient was discovered on the first night of the WFST DHugr survey, non-detection constraint is not available.

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