TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 221036 [ 2024TNSTR2786....1A ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-08-06 09:39:00
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 2018moj
Discoverer internal name: ZTF18aashxde
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 17:34:15.461 (263.56442) DEC = +25:50:15.79 (25.83772)
Discovery date: 2018-03-26 12:07:32.736 (JD=2458204.00524)


Remarks: Transient identified by SNAD Miner (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.11555.pdf). See more info at: https://ztf.snad.space/view/635106200001974. The ZTF Alert ID for this object is ZTF18aashxde. The internal SNAD Object ID is SNAD256.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2018-03-26 12:07:32.736
Flux: 20.5 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: For the first photometric point reference magnitude is 21.55 mag. ZTF DR OID 635106200001974 (zg). ZTF Alert ID ZTF18aashxde.

Last non-detection:
Archival info: DSS

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