TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 196406 [ 2023TNSTR3239....1A ]

Date Received (UTC): 2023-12-14 12:56:27
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 2023aaax
Discoverer internal name: ZTF23abrzcve
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 03:27:46.084 (51.942014633513) DEC = +32:42:09.31 (32.702584826066)
Discovery date: 2023-12-14 08:25:36.768 (JD=2460292.8511227)


Remarks: Supernova candidate identified by the ANTARES anomaly detection filter. See locus info at: https://antares.noirlab.edu/loci/ANT20236pipzxls6hcp

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2023-12-14 08:25:36.768
Flux: 20.0098 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2023-12-10 07:36:38
Limiting flux: 20.2624 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin


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