TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 248969 [ 2025TNSTR1062....1X ]

Date Received (UTC): 2025-03-20 11:05:47
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 2025exb
Discoverer internal name: WFST0510avql
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 13:19:17.900 (199.824583) DEC = +00:47:21.37 (0.789269)
Discovery date: 2025-02-08 21:36:00.000 (JD=2460715.4)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2025-02-08 21:36:00.000
Flux: 21.91 ABMag
Filter: r-WFST
Instrument: WFST-WFC
Telescope: Wide Field Survey Telescope

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2025-02-07 22:20:38
Limiting flux: 21.17 ABMag
Filter: r-WFST
Instrument: WFST-WFC
Telescope: Wide Field Survey Telescope


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