TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 171390 [ 2023TNSTR.391....1F ]

Date Received (UTC): 2023-02-19 23:49:02
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

F. Forster, F.E. Bauer, G. Pignata, A. Munoz-Arancibia, A. Mourao, R. Dastidar, L. Hernandez-Garcia, L. Galbany, E. Camacho, J. Silva-Farfan, J. Arredondo, G. Cabrera-Vives, R. Carrasco-Davis, P.A. Estevez, P. Huijse, E. Reyes, I. Reyes, P. Sanchez-Saez, C. Valenzuela, E. Castillo, D. Ruz-Mieres, 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: AT 2023cht
Discoverer internal name: ZTF23aacrqiu
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 13:41:15.725 (205.3155216) DEC = +03:08:19.57 (3.1387698)
Discovery date: 2023-02-19 11:04:01.001 (JD=2459994.9611227)

Potential host galaxy: LEDA 1246026
Host redshift: 0.11542

Remarks: SN candidate 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/ZTF23aacrqiu

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2023-02-19 11:04:01.001
Flux: 20.018 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2023-02-12 11:33:27
Limiting flux: 19.7959 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/2023cht