TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 193579 [ 2023TNSTR2908....1F ]

Date Received (UTC): 2023-11-11 23:17:19
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

F. Forster, F.E. Bauer, G. Pignata, A. Munoz-Arancibia, A. Mourao, L. Hernandez-Garcia, J.P. Brandt, L. Galbany, J. Silva-Farfan, R. Dastidar, E. Camacho, A. Alvarez, G. Cabrera-Vives, R. Carrasco-Davis, P.A. Estevez, P. Gallardo, P. Huijse, H. Larranaga, E. Pizarro, I. Reyes, P. Sanchez-Saez, A. Sepulveda, 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 2023xnt
Discoverer internal name: ZTF23abqbnkl
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 23:28:50.990 (352.2124581) DEC = +11:05:15.92 (11.0877567)
Discovery date: 2023-11-11 04:40:53.996 (JD=2460259.6950694)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J232851.05+110518.2

Remarks: Early SN candidate (g-rise > 0.16+-0.03 mag/day) 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/ZTF23abqbnkl

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2023-11-11 04:40:53.996
Flux: 19.9715 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2023-11-11 03:07:40
Limiting flux: 20.4394 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/2023xnt