TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 206645 [ 2024TNSTR.906....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-04-03 23:35:05
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 2024fob
Discoverer internal name: ZTF24aaiftha
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 15:20:22.786 (230.09494038865) DEC = -11:17:20.66 (-11.289073327074)
Discovery date: 2024-04-03 11:27:56.002 (JD=2460403.9777315)

Potential host galaxy: LEDA 967649
Host redshift: 0.05231

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/ZTF24aaiftha

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-04-03 11:27:56.002
Flux: 19.4159 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2024-03-27 09:04:02
Limiting flux: 18.7954 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/2024fob