TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 196545 [ 2023TNSTR3252....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2023-12-15 02:38:54
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

A. Munoz-Arancibia, F.E. Bauer, F. Forster, G. Pignata, A. Mourao, L. Hernandez-Garcia, J.P. Brandt, L. Galbany, J. Silva-Farfan, R. Dastidar, A. Alvarez, G. Cabrera-Vives, R. Carrasco-Davis, P.A. Estevez, P. Gallardo, P. Huijse, H. Larranaga, E. Pizarro, I. Reyes, P. Sanchez-Saez, A. Sepulveda, D. Rodriguez-Mancini, M. Catelan, S. Eyheramendy, M.J. Graham on behalf of the ALeRCE broker report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2023aaea
Discoverer internal name: ZTF23abtxhjg
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 02:49:45.215 (42.438397731267) DEC = +81:03:18.28 (81.055078468898)
Discovery date: 2023-12-12 09:40:47.997 (JD=2460290.9033333)

Potential host galaxy: WISEA J024945.53+810316.7

Remarks: SN candidate classified using ALeRCE's stamp classifier (Carrasco-Davis et al. 2021) and the public ZTF stream. Discovery image and light curve in http://alerce.online/object/ZTF23abtxhjg

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2023-12-12 09:40:47.997
Flux: 19.9943 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2023-12-10 07:43:18
Limiting flux: 20.0416 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

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