TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 220210 [ 2024TNSTR2684....1P ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-07-31 08:37:57
Date made public:
Sender: Priscila Pessi
Reporting Group: None     Discovery Data Source: Fink

Priscila Pessi (OKC), E. E. O. Ishida (CNRS), R. Durgesh (independent), E. E. Hayes (KIC), L. Nakazono (USP), R. A. P. Oliveira (UW), A. Moitinho (CENTRA), A. Krone-Martins (UC), B. Moews (UE), R. S. de Souza (UH), R. Beck (independent), M. A. Kuhn (UH), K. Nowak (UH), and S. Vaughan (MU), for the COIN collaboration report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2024qru
Discoverer internal name: ZTF24aawxsum
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 14:09:29.987 (212.374947) DEC = +53:23:54.28 (53.398411)
Discovery date: 2024-07-24 04:48:00.000 (JD=2460515.7)


Remarks: Faint transient discovered using the ELEPHANT pipeline for hostless events on the public ZTF stream accessed through the Fink broker. The transient appears in the ZTF data releases and seems to have been showing activity since 2018 (~21.75 mag). Latest detection is ~2mag brighter than those in the data release.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-07-24 04:48:00.000
Flux: 20.07 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Archival info: SDSS

Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2024qru