TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 232639 [ 2024TNSTR4523....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-11-17 02:52:29
Date made public:
Sender: Fritz
Reporting Group: ZTF     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

Katherine Mora (UC Berkeley), Nabeel Rehemtulla (CIERA, NU), Christoffer Fremling (Caltech), Daniel Perley (LJMU), Theophile du Laz (Caltech) on behalf of ZTF report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2024abfs
Discoverer internal name: ZTF24abspaxa
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 01:07:10.133 (16.7922222) DEC = +83:24:18.80 (83.4052213)
Discovery date: 2024-11-14 03:12:02.001 (JD=2460628.6333565)


Remarks: Bright (m_peak <= 18.5) transient candidate identified autonomously by BTSbot (Rehemtulla et al. 2024; arXiv:2401.15167).

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-11-14 03:12:02.001
Flux: 19.8519 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2024-11-13 09:19:13
Limiting flux: 19.2576 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin


Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2024abfs