TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 226141 [ 2024TNSTR3642....1F ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-09-22 16:07:04
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

F. Forster, F.E. Bauer, G. Pignata, A. Munoz-Arancibia, 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 2024vxc
Discoverer internal name: ZTF24abiieub
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 19:47:54.954 (296.9789761) DEC = -19:18:19.62 (-19.3054487)
Discovery date: 2024-09-22 03:31:57.000 (JD=2460575.6471875)

Potential host galaxy: WISEA J194755.00-191818.9

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/ZTF24abiieub

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-09-22 03:31:57.000
Flux: 19.8956 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2024-09-18 06:03:48
Limiting flux: 18.547 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/2024vxc