GOTO24gy
SN2024bci (via TNS)
First reported by: GOTO
Volunteers who marked this as real:
Jose Alberto da Silva Campos, Antonio Pasqua, M.T. Mazzucato, Valmir Martins de Morais, Henryk Krawczyk, ERIC FABRIGAT, Benoit ROUSSEAU, Sebastián Alejandro Freigeiro, Cledison Marcos da Silva, Davide Iannone, Mayahuel Torres Guerrero, Svetoslav Alexandrov, Virgilio Gonano, Rosemary Billington, Sauro Gaudenzi, Pritam Raikar
GOTO discovery observation: 2024-01-29 02:31:09
Volunteer consensus: 100.0%
Subject 96164122
Classification: SN Ia
moriarty
contextual classification
GOTO133724.46+272510.43 is likely associated with the B=14.11 mag galaxy NGC 5251 in the gladeplus_galaxies, ps1_stackobjectview_minimal catalogs (5.33” away). Probability of connection 99.992% – host is at 166.5 Mpc (z=0.0366+/-0.0011), implying a transient absolute magnitude of -18.21 and sky-projected offset of 4.30 kpc. This transient is spatially coincident with the cluster ZwCl 6127
Aladin view
Additional information
NASA Extragalactic Database
SIMBAD