TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 258094 [ 2025TNSTR2147....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2025-06-09 20:23:57
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

A. Munoz-Arancibia, F.E. Bauer, G. Pignata, F. Forster, A. Mourao, S. Jurado, L. Hernandez-Garcia, L. Galbany, J. Silva-Farfan, R. Dastidar, J.P. Brandt, A. Alvarez, F. Andrades, G. Cabrera-Vives, R. Carrasco-Davis, P.A. Estevez, P. Huijse, H. Larranaga, C. Mansilla, K. Medina, D. Moreno, E. Munoz, 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: SN 2025nek
Discoverer internal name: ZTF18ackwclx
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 00:38:33.405 (9.6391881142873) DEC = +24:16:14.55 (24.2707081)
Discovery date: 2025-06-05 11:21:04.003 (JD=2460831.972963)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J003833.37+241614.2

Remarks: Early SN candidate (r-rise > 1.00 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/ZTF18ackwclx

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2025-06-05 11:21:04.003
Flux: 18.0533 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2025-06-05 11:15:33
Limiting flux: 20.2827 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/2025nek