TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 211589 [ 2024TNSTR1728....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-05-31 22:02:38
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, 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 2024jxv
Discoverer internal name: ZTF24aapfcwz
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 18:07:23.075 (271.84614740786) DEC = +18:38:07.56 (18.635433523799)
Discovery date: 2024-05-26 08:35:06.999 (JD=2460456.8577199)

Potential host galaxy: WISEA J180723.23+183808.0

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/ZTF24aapfcwz

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-05-26 08:35:06.999
Flux: 20.3601 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2024-05-21 10:05:31
Limiting flux: 19.7719 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/2024jxv