TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 221032 [ 2024TNSTR2786....1A ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-08-06 09:10:49
Date made public:
Sender: SNAD_bot
Reporting Group: SNAD     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

Patrick Aleo (UIUC) and Maria Pruzhinskaya (LPC) on behalf of the SNAD team report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2018mog
Discoverer internal name: SNAD253
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 16:47:20.280 (251.8345) DEC = +24:36:25.31 (24.60703)
Discovery date: 2018-07-03 05:06:31.104 (JD=2458302.71286)


Remarks: Transient identified by SNAD Miner (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.11555.pdf). See more info at: https://ztf.snad.space/view/633105400014971. There is no ZTF Alert ID for this object (i.e., not in the alert stream), so we report the internal SNAD Object ID instead. The internal SNAD Object ID is SNAD253.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2018-07-03 05:06:31.104
Flux: 21.09 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: For the first photometric point reference magnitude is 20.87 mag. ZTF DR OID 633105400014971 (zg). No ZTF Alert ID found.

Last non-detection:
Archival info: DSS

Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2018mog