TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 193856 [ 2023TNSTR2963....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2023-11-15 00:14:56
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

A. Munoz-Arancibia, F.E. Bauer, F. Forster, G. Pignata, 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 2023xut
Discoverer internal name: ZTF23abqwpkj
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 22:42:52.360 (340.7181676) DEC = +12:46:11.94 (12.7699821)
Discovery date: 2023-11-14 04:35:36.001 (JD=2460262.6913889)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J224252.38+124609.2

Remarks: Early SN candidate (g-rise > 0.18+-0.06 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/ZTF23abqwpkj

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2023-11-14 04:35:36.001
Flux: 20.1007 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 04:04:22
Limiting flux: 20.6373 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/2023xut