TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 219413 [ 2024TNSTR2557....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-07-24 23:22:58
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: SN 2024qai
Discoverer internal name: ZTF24aawyrsn
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 18:51:16.874 (282.8203091) DEC = +32:51:57.36 (32.8659338)
Discovery date: 2024-07-24 06:37:25.000 (JD=2460515.7759838)


Remarks: Early SN candidate (g-rise > 0.15+-0.02 mag/day, r-rise > 0.31+-0.08 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/ZTF24aawyrsn

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-07-24 06:37:25.000
Flux: 19.3384 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2024-07-22 07:11:28
Limiting flux: 19.9433 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/2024qai