TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 218544 [ 2024TNSTR2351....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-07-10 20:22:38
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 2024pgn
Discoverer internal name: ZTF24aaumtfj
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 16:51:20.150 (252.8339594) DEC = +47:35:09.29 (47.5859143)
Discovery date: 2024-07-07 05:17:38.000 (JD=2460498.7205787)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J165120.16+473508.3

Remarks: Early SN candidate (g-rise > 0.10+-0.02 mag/day, r-rise > 0.07+-0.02 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/ZTF24aaumtfj

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-07-07 05:17:38.000
Flux: 20.0924 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2024-06-30 08:47:44
Limiting flux: 20.652 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/2024pgn