TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 234501 [ 2024TNSTR4706....1F ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-12-01 02:41:49
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, L. Galbany, J. Silva-Farfan, R. Dastidar, J.P. Brandt, A. Alvarez, G. Cabrera-Vives, R. Carrasco-Davis, P.A. Estevez, B. Gamboa, P. Huijse, H. Larranaga, C. Mansilla, K. Medina, D. Moreno, E. Munoz, E. Pizarro, 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 2024acxt
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20acwclpk
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 11:40:10.829 (175.0451204) DEC = +50:17:53.89 (50.2983024)
Discovery date: 2024-11-26 12:10:52.000 (JD=2460641.0075463)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J114010.82+501753.7
Host redshift: 0.05163176

Remarks: Early SN candidate (g-rise > 0.22+-0.05 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/ZTF20acwclpk

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-11-26 12:10:52.000
Flux: 19.3531 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2024-11-26 10:12:21
Limiting flux: 19.8544 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/2024acxt