TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 207298 [ 2024TNSTR1003....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-04-10 02:02:13
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 2024gee
Discoverer internal name: ZTF24aaivhlj
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 12:39:03.852 (189.76605158974) DEC = -15:47:27.27 (-15.790907470086)
Discovery date: 2024-04-09 04:42:05.000 (JD=2460409.6958912)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J123903.75-154728.5

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/ZTF24aaivhlj

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-04-09 04:42:05.000
Flux: 20.3788 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2024-04-07 08:33:51
Limiting flux: 20.1711 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/2024gee