TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 202473 [ 2024TNSTR.454....1F ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-02-15 00:19:53
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

F. Forster, F.E. Bauer, G. Pignata, A. Munoz-Arancibia, A. Mourao, L. Hernandez-Garcia, J.P. Brandt, L. Galbany, J. Silva-Farfan, R. Dastidar, E. Camacho, 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 2024csj
Discoverer internal name: ZTF24aaejphz
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 10:55:45.980 (163.94158219918) DEC = +10:55:34.84 (10.926344022623)
Discovery date: 2024-02-12 09:03:34.998 (JD=2460352.8774884)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J105545.97+105534.9

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/ZTF24aaejphz

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-02-12 09:03:34.998
Flux: 20.2846 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2024-02-01 07:29:42
Limiting flux: 19.9421 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/2024csj