TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 193736 [ 2023TNSTR2935....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2023-11-13 19:05:08
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, J.P. Brandt, L. Galbany, J. Silva-Farfan, R. Dastidar, 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 2023xrf
Discoverer internal name: ZTF23abqwfuc
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 12:21:51.176 (185.4632316) DEC = -12:58:58.63 (-12.98295372)
Discovery date: 2023-11-13 13:06:22.997 (JD=2460262.0460995)

Potential host galaxy: 2MASX J12215106-1258589
Host redshift: 0.047373

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/ZTF23abqwfuc

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2023-11-13 13:06:22.997
Flux: 17.9584 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Archival info: Other
Remarks: ZTF non-detection limits not available

Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2023xrf