TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 168492 [ 2023TNSTR..75....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2023-01-13 20:16:55
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

A. Munoz-Arancibia, F.E. Bauer, G. Pignata, 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 2023ka
Discoverer internal name: ZTF23aaajsgt
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 09:11:25.169 (137.8548694) DEC = -12:47:39.51 (-12.7943091)
Discovery date: 2023-01-13 09:06:51.998 (JD=2459957.8797685)


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/ZTF23aaajsgt

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2023-01-13 09:06:51.998
Flux: 19.6259 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2023-01-07 09:37:15
Limiting flux: 18.9823 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/2023ka