TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 199845 [ 2024TNSTR.150....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-01-15 23:02:09
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 2024afj
Discoverer internal name: ZTF24aacijdj
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 11:00:10.558 (165.04399075008) DEC = -18:37:56.52 (-18.6323666)
Discovery date: 2024-01-13 10:27:38.002 (JD=2460322.9358565)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J110010.51-183756.5

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/ZTF24aacijdj

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-01-13 10:27:38.002
Flux: 20.0975 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2024-01-05 12:47:44
Limiting flux: 19.9021 ABMag
Filter: r-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/2024afj