TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 211303 [ 2024TNSTR1672....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-05-28 21:15:00
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, B. Gamboa, P. Huijse, H. Larranaga, C. Mansilla, K. Medina, D. Moreno, E. Munoz, E. Pizarro, I. Reyes, P. Sanchez-Saez, 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 2024jqa
Discoverer internal name: ZTF24aaoeqjw
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 14:42:55.407 (220.7308622) DEC = +20:04:22.08 (20.0727999)
Discovery date: 2024-05-28 05:57:34.001 (JD=2460458.7483102)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J144255.35+200424.0
Host redshift: 0.1497105

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/ZTF24aaoeqjw

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-05-28 05:57:34.001
Flux: 20.1115 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2024-05-26 07:34:09
Limiting flux: 20.2192 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/2024jqa