TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 225387 [ 2024TNSTR3457....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-09-12 18:38:35
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

A. Munoz-Arancibia, G. Pignata, F. Forster, F.E. Bauer, 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 2024vhs
Discoverer internal name: ZTF24abhbwzx
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 03:04:58.296 (46.242901187283) DEC = +03:23:31.47 (3.3920751542179)
Discovery date: 2024-09-07 09:43:26.999 (JD=2460560.9051736)

Potential host galaxy: WISEA J030458.30+032328.9

Remarks: Early SN candidate (r-rise > 0.08+-0.02 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/ZTF24abhbwzx

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-09-07 09:43:26.999
Flux: 20.5301 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2024-09-05 11:07:34
Limiting flux: 20.3588 ABMag
Filter: g-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/2024vhs