[vsnet-alert 23903] TCP J06073081-0101501: new transient (13.9 mag) in Orion

Wed Jan 29 01:27:58 JST 2020

TCP J06073081-0101501 = BraTS-BraTS-T1-005  (UGWZ:)
https://www.aavso.org/vsx/index.php?view=detail.top&oid=1540531

Discovery details:
R.A. 06h07m30.81s, Decl. -01°01'50.1" (J2000.0)
2020 Jan. 28.1039 UT, mag. 13.9 (CCD, unfiltered)
Discoverer: Brazilian Transient Search (BraTS)

For details see:
http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/unconf/followups/J06073081-0101501.html
https://wis-tns.weizmann.ac.il/object/2020bfc

Complete ASAS-SN Sky Patrol (Shappee et al. 2014ApJ...788...48S
and Kochanek et al. 2017PASP..129j4502K) data and light curve:
https://asas-sn.osu.edu/light_curves/095b3031-24e8-4d7b-987a-ebdce83d0a98

Spectroscopy, precise astrometry, and multiband as well as
time-resolved photometry are urgently required.

Clear skies,
Patrick