TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 205729 [ 2024TNSTR.750....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-03-20 20:50:19
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, L. Galbany, J. Silva-Farfan, R. Dastidar, J.P. Brandt, 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 2024eth
Discoverer internal name: ZTF24aahgzbr
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 10:39:53.792 (159.9741336) DEC = -04:47:11.63 (-4.7865643)
Discovery date: 2024-03-20 04:39:00.000 (JD=2460389.69375)

Potential host galaxy: WISEA J103953.79-044711.0

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/ZTF24aahgzbr

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-03-20 04:39:00.000
Flux: 19.3536 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2024-03-11 06:34:26
Limiting flux: 19.2155 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/2024eth