TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 182926 [ 2023TNSTR1724....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2023-07-21 21:38:30
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

A. Munoz-Arancibia, F. Forster, G. Pignata, 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 2023nqe
Discoverer internal name: ZTF23aatiequ
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 19:58:58.308 (299.7429499) DEC = -24:40:25.79 (-24.673830766667)
Discovery date: 2023-07-15 09:01:30.003 (JD=2460140.8760417)

Potential host galaxy: WISEA J195858.47-244025.6

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/ZTF23aatiequ

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2023-07-15 09:01:30.003
Flux: 20.4376 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2023-07-15 08:02:19
Limiting flux: 20.2471 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/2023nqe