TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 225328 [ 2024TNSTR3461....1P ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-09-12 06:58:41
Date made public:
Sender: Priscila Pessi
Reporting Group: COIN     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 2024vgf
Discoverer internal name: ZTF24abdofqs
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 02:27:51.732 (36.96555) DEC = +27:39:16.96 (27.654712)
Discovery date: 2024-08-15 00:00:00.000 (JD=2460537.5)


Remarks: Transient discovered using the ELEPHANT pipeline for hostless events on the public ZTF stream accessed through the Fink broker.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-08-15 00:00:00.000
Flux: 20.78 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2024-08-12 00:00:00
Limiting flux: 20.63 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin


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