TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 209632 [ 2024TNSTR1414....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-05-07 21:13:51
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

A. Munoz-Arancibia, G. Pignata, F.E. Bauer, F. Forster, 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 2024igt
Discoverer internal name: ZTF24aamjbpi
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 11:37:59.813 (174.4992198) DEC = +27:21:56.40 (27.3656654)
Discovery date: 2024-05-07 04:10:25.003 (JD=2460437.6739005)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J113759.79+272157.8
Host redshift: 0.1394361

Remarks: Early SN candidate (g-rise > 0.14+-0.04 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/ZTF24aamjbpi

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-05-07 04:10:25.003
Flux: 20.2576 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2024-05-07 03:37:08
Limiting flux: 19.6158 ABMag
Filter: i-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/2024igt