AT2023wbu (via TNS)

First reported by: GOTO

Volunteers who marked this as real:

Jose Alberto da Silva Campos, M.T. Mazzucato, Henryk Krawczyk, ERIC FABRIGAT, Sebastián Alejandro Freigeiro, Cledison Marcos da Silva, picerx38, Mayahuel Torres Guerrero, Svetoslav Alexandrov, Virgilio Gonano, C. S. Tolliver
GOTO discovery observation: 2023-10-28 06:09:43
Volunteer consensus: 73.0%

Subject 92889863

Kilonova Seekers subject for GOTO23bbl

Classification: None

moriarty contextual classification

GOTO104851.59+173732.09 is likely associated with the B=16.16 mag galaxy HyperLEDA 1537311 in the gladeplus_galaxies, ps1_stackobjectview_minimal catalogs (8.03” away). Probability of connection 99.982% – host is at 262.8 Mpc (z=0.0569+/-0.0016), implying a transient absolute magnitude of -18.08 and sky-projected offset of 10.23 kpc. This transient is spatially coincident with the cluster ZwCl 3491

Aladin view

Additional information

NASA Extragalactic Database
SIMBAD

Legacy Survey DR10 (if available)

Legacy Survey