TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 218935 [ 2024TNSTR2456....1F ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-07-16 20:20:37
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

F. Forster, F.E. Bauer, G. Pignata, A. Munoz-Arancibia, 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 2024ppx
Discoverer internal name: ZTF24aavzubm
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 18:31:06.057 (277.7752381295) DEC = +44:13:07.85 (44.218846836003)
Discovery date: 2024-07-13 07:47:19.003 (JD=2460504.8245255)

Potential host galaxy: WISEA J183105.88+441308.0

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/ZTF24aavzubm

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-07-13 07:47:19.003
Flux: 20.5895 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2024-07-11 08:15:17
Limiting flux: 20.4139 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/2024ppx