TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 207891 [ 2024TNSTR1107....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-04-18 01:42:44
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 2024gta
Discoverer internal name: ZTF24aajgxuq
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 11:52:59.309 (178.24711929998) DEC = +28:59:12.78 (28.98688315)
Discovery date: 2024-04-13 07:14:32.004 (JD=2460413.8017593)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J115259.29+285912.8

Remarks: Early SN candidate (g-rise > 0.87+-0.09 mag/day) 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/ZTF24aajgxuq

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-04-13 07:14:32.004
Flux: 19.9872 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2024-04-11 07:58:39
Limiting flux: 21.7097 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/2024gta