TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 196405 [ 2023TNSTR3239....1A ]

Date Received (UTC): 2023-12-14 12:56:21
Date made public:
Sender: ANTARES_bot
Reporting Group: ANTARES     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

Patrick Aleo (UIUC), Chien-Hsiu Lee (NSF's NOIRLab), Konstantin Malanchev (UIUC), Thomas Matheson (NSF's NOIRLab), Gautham Narayan (UIUC), Abhijit Saha (NSF's NOIRLab), Carlos Scheidegger (U. Arizona), Adam Scott (NSF's NOIRLab), Monika Soraisam (UIUC), Carl Stubens (NSF's NOIRLab), Nicholas Wolf (NSF's NOIRLab) report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2023aaaw
Discoverer internal name: ZTF23absiont
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 09:15:53.168 (138.97153486584) DEC = +79:08:36.21 (79.143390455372)
Discovery date: 2023-12-14 11:17:14.784 (JD=2460292.9703125)


Remarks: Supernova candidate identified by the ANTARES anomaly detection filter. See locus info at: https://antares.noirlab.edu/loci/ANT2023hpw5jgh2eguv

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2023-12-14 11:17:14.784
Flux: 19.9051 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2023-12-14 09:23:25
Limiting flux: 20.4593 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin


Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2023aaaw