TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 177233 [ 2023TNSTR1078....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2023-05-13 00:32:05
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

A. Munoz-Arancibia, G. Pignata, F.E. Bauer, F. Forster, A. Mourao, L. Hernandez-Garcia, L. Galbany, J. Silva-Farfan, R. Dastidar, E. Camacho, J. Arredondo, G. Cabrera-Vives, R. Carrasco-Davis, P.A. Estevez, P. Huijse, A. Moya E. Reyes, 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: AT 2023icw
Discoverer internal name: ZTF23aajdtyv
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 13:13:52.175 (198.4673952) DEC = +48:44:49.59 (48.7471092)
Discovery date: 2023-05-12 06:53:16.999 (JD=2460076.7870023)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J131352.05+484448.4
Host redshift: 0.1312697

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/ZTF23aajdtyv

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2023-05-12 06:53:16.999
Flux: 19.7832 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2023-05-03 06:44:43
Limiting flux: 19.1102 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/2023icw