TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 238276 [ 2024TNSTR5146....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-12-30 17:57:14
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

A. Munoz-Arancibia, F.E. Bauer, G. Pignata, F. Forster, A. Mourao, L. Hernandez-Garcia, L. Galbany, J. Silva-Farfan, R. Dastidar, J.P. Brandt, A. Alvarez, G. Cabrera-Vives, R. Carrasco-Davis, P.A. Estevez, B. Gamboa, P. Huijse, H. Larranaga, C. Mansilla, K. Medina, D. Moreno, E. Munoz, I. Reyes, P. Sanchez-Saez, 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 2024afzo
Discoverer internal name: ZTF24abzxlyf
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 01:19:08.765 (19.7865224) DEC = -12:16:21.58 (-12.2726619)
Discovery date: 2024-12-30 02:58:10.998 (JD=2460674.6237384)

Potential host galaxy: WISEA J011908.78-121622.0

Remarks: Early SN candidate (g-rise > 0.19+-0.07 mag/day) 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/ZTF24abzxlyf

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-12-30 02:58:10.998
Flux: 19.5205 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2024-12-28 03:28:33
Limiting flux: 19.8946 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/2024afzo