TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 46510 [ 2019TNSTR1786....1F ]

Date Received (UTC): 2019-09-10 12:27:48
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

F. Forster on behalf of the ALeRCE broker report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2019pxe
Discoverer internal name: ZTF19abyirjl
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 02:01:53.082 (30.4711756) DEC = +30:44:00.78 (30.7335502)
Discovery date: 2019-09-10 11:05:57.000 (JD=2458736.9624653)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J020152.85+304359.8
Host redshift: 0.1

Remarks: Early SN candidate classified by ALeRCE using the public ZTF stream. Discovery image and light curve in http://alerce.online/object/ZTF19abyirjl

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2019-09-10 11:05:57.000
Flux: 20.0494 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2019-09-07 11:08:11
Limiting flux: 20.7681 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/2019pxe