TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 198600 [ 2024TNSTR...6....1F ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-01-02 23:39:56
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 2024df
Discoverer internal name: ZTF24aaaddfr
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 13:19:56.472 (199.985302) DEC = +07:52:08.98 (7.8691613)
Discovery date: 2024-01-02 11:08:09.004 (JD=2460311.9639931)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J131956.41+075209.2
Host redshift: 0.09378769

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/ZTF24aaaddfr

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-01-02 11:08:09.004
Flux: 19.2764 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2023-12-12 12:51:04
Limiting flux: 20.1462 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/2024df