TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 254472 [ 2025TNSTR1698....1C ]

Date Received (UTC): 2025-05-07 23:11:10
Date made public:
Sender: PS1_Bot1
Reporting Group: Pan-STARRS     Discovery Data Source: Pan-STARRS

K. C. Chambers, T. de Boer, J. Fairlamb, M. Huber, C.-C. Lin, T. Lowe, E. Magnier, P. Minguez, G. Paek, A. Schultz, I. A. Smith, R. J. Wainscoat (IfA, University of Hawaii), S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith (University of Oxford / Queen's University Belfast), S. Srivastav (University of Oxford), D. R. Young, M. Fulton, M. Nicholl, T. Moore, J. Weston, C. R. Angus (Queen's University Belfast) report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2025kbc
Discoverer internal name: PS25cog
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 17:28:01.640 (262.006834414) DEC = +40:29:02.01 (40.483891434)
Discovery date: 2025-04-27 13:10:09.408 (JD=2460793.04872)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2025-04-27 13:10:09.408
Flux: 21.26 ABMag
Filter: w-P1
Instrument: GPC2
Telescope: Pan-STARRS2

Last non-detection:
Archival info: DSS

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