GIT observations of AT 2023yqt in M31
ATel #16368; Shatakshi Chamoli (IIA), Judhajeet Basu (IIA), Sudhanshu Barway (IIA), G. C. Anupama (IIA), Vishwajeet Swain (IITB), Ravi Kumar (IITB), Varun Bhalerao (IITB) and GIT Team
on 7 Dec 2023; 14:25 UT
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Credential Certification: Sudhanshu Barway (sudhanshu.barway@iiap.res.in)
We report observations of the bright nova AT 2023yqt (RA = 00:42:27.490, Dec = +41:11:08.20) by the GROWTH-India Telescope (GIT) on 03 Dec 2023.
This nova was discovered and classified by Zhang et al. (Discovery Date: 2023-12-03 12:21:16.992). It was also independently discovered by LCOGT (Barnes-Sanchez et al. 2023: Atel #16363).
The nova was detected in both g' and r' bands. The PSF photometry magnitudes (AB), calibrated against PanSTARRS DR1 (Chambers et al., 2016) and not corrected for Galactic extinction are:
Date obs (UT) | Exposure time | g' | r'
2023-12-03.59 | 400 sec | 16.23 +/- 0.20 | 16.28 +/- 0.25
GIT will continue to monitor this nova.
The GROWTH-India Telescope (GIT; Kumar et al. 2022) is a 70-cm telescope with a 0.7-degree field of view, set up by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) with funding from DST-SERB and IUSSTF. It is located at the Indian Astronomical Observatory (Hanle), operated by IIA. We acknowledge funding by the IITB alumni batch of 1994, which partially supports the operations of the telescope. Telescope technical details are available at https://sites.google.com/view/growthindia/.
