TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 206757 [ 2024TNSTR.921....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-04-04 22:14:45
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

A. Munoz-Arancibia, F. Forster, F.E. Bauer, 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 2024fqg
Discoverer internal name: ZTF24aaigqmu
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 08:07:59.972 (121.99988211423) DEC = +81:50:51.95 (81.847762648578)
Discovery date: 2024-03-29 07:17:28.000 (JD=2460398.8037963)

Potential host galaxy: WISEA J080759.88+815052.1

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/ZTF24aaigqmu

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-03-29 07:17:28.000
Flux: 19.8501 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2024-03-23 10:13:04
Limiting flux: 16.8332 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/2024fqg