AT2026aawc (via TNS)

First reported by: GOTO

Volunteers who marked this as real:

M.T. Mazzucato, Íris Eduarda Forcel Roncada, Cledison Marcos da Silva, Niladri S Kar, Antonio Pasqua, Jose Alberto da Silva Campos, Svetoslav Alexandrov, Ciro Sirio Perrella, Virgilio Gonano

GOTO discovery observation: 2026-08-07T19:40:43.331000Z

Volunteer consensus: 100.0%

Subject 123345423

Kilonova Seekers subject for GOTO26jal

Classification: None

moriarty contextual classification

GOTO043917.40-505143.09 is likely associated with the J=15.36 mag galaxy 2MASS J04392859-5052485 in the gladeplus_galaxies catalog (124.59” away). Probability of connection 95.780% – host is at 925.9 Mpc (z=0.1846+/-0.0391*), implying a transient absolute magnitude of -19.76 and sky-projected offset of 398.53 kpc.

Aladin view

Rubin (LSST) ZTF (Lasair)
NED SIMBAD

Legacy Survey DR10 (if available)

Legacy Survey