TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 221073 [ 2024TNSTR2779....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-08-06 14:07:03
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 2024rlw
Discoverer internal name: ZTF24aaypzcn
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 20:46:48.125 (311.70052055001) DEC = +13:23:54.24 (13.3983996)
Discovery date: 2024-08-03 07:04:26.996 (JD=2460525.7947569)

Potential host galaxy: WISEA J204647.84+132357.2

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/ZTF24aaypzcn

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-08-03 07:04:26.996
Flux: 20.426 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2024-07-31 09:04:41
Limiting flux: 20.4453 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/2024rlw