AT2024xlk (via TNS)

First reported by: ATLAS

Volunteers who marked this as real:

Jose Alberto da Silva Campos, Antonio Pasqua, M.T. Mazzucato, Henryk Krawczyk, Cledison Marcos da Silva, Davide Iannone, Mayahuel Torres Guerrero, Svetoslav Alexandrov, Virgilio Gonano, Rosemary Billington, A. G. Bull
GOTO discovery observation: 2024-10-09 02:33:42
Volunteer consensus: 92.0%

Subject 103390494

Kilonova Seekers subject for GOTO24gyb

Classification: None

moriarty contextual classification

GOTO050040.06+692514.84 is likely synonymous with the B=15.74 mag galaxy HyperLEDA 2730270 in the gladeplus_galaxies, ps1_stackobjectview_minimal catalogs (1.70” away). Probability of connection 99.998% – host is at 245.8 Mpc (z=0.0533+/-0.0150*), implying a transient absolute magnitude of -18.73 and sky-projected offset of 1.83 kpc.

Aladin view

Additional information

NASA Extragalactic Database
SIMBAD

Legacy Survey DR10 (if available)

Legacy Survey