TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 182029 [ 2023TNSTR1611....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2023-07-10 22:20:12
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

A. Munoz-Arancibia, G. Pignata, F. Forster, F.E. Bauer, 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 2023mrz
Discoverer internal name: ZTF23aaqwnfd
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 13:40:22.883 (205.0953461) DEC = +19:47:56.68 (19.7990778)
Discovery date: 2023-07-10 05:41:37.000 (JD=2460135.7372338)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J134022.56+194756.0
Host redshift: 0.1168704

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/ZTF23aaqwnfd

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2023-07-10 05:41:37.000
Flux: 19.5053 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2023-07-07 04:44:10
Limiting flux: 20.3287 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/2023mrz