TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 229823 [ 2024TNSTR4084....1P ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-10-21 21:19:15
Date made public:
Sender: Rupesh Durgesh
Reporting Group: COIN     Discovery Data Source: Fink

P. Pessi (OKC), R. Durgesh (independent), E. E. O. Ishida (CNRS), 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 2024yrl
Discoverer internal name: ZTF24abltiwy
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 03:17:37.314 (49.4054752) DEC = +24:00:17.48 (24.0048568)
Discovery date: 2024-09-24 00:00:00.000 (JD=2460577.5)


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: 2024-09-24 00:00:00.000
Flux: 20.52 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2024-09-23 00:00:00
Limiting flux: 19.96 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin


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