TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 207460 [ 2024TNSTR1018....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-04-11 19:07:30
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 2024ghu
Discoverer internal name: ZTF23aagfxiz
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 12:33:43.037 (188.42932261972) DEC = +14:29:10.16 (14.486154581843)
Discovery date: 2024-04-09 04:12:23.000 (JD=2460409.6752662)

Potential host galaxy: WISEA J123343.08+142910.1

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/ZTF23aagfxiz

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-04-09 04:12:23.000
Flux: 20.3278 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 07:44:25
Limiting flux: 20.2957 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/2024ghu