TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 198955 [ 2024TNSTR..49....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-01-06 02:07:15
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, J.P. Brandt, L. Galbany, J. Silva-Farfan, R. Dastidar, 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: SN 2024ko
Discoverer internal name: ZTF24aaaintg
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 11:16:19.370 (169.0807078) DEC = +11:17:24.04 (11.2900125)
Discovery date: 2024-01-05 09:17:14.001 (JD=2460314.8869676)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J111619.29+111723.7
Host redshift: 0.07897198

Remarks: Early SN candidate (g-rise > 0.08+-0.00 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/ZTF24aaaintg

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-01-05 09:17:14.001
Flux: 18.7726 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2023-12-27 11:46:48
Limiting flux: 17.9314 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/2024ko