TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 202316 [ 2024TNSTR.420....1F ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-02-13 17:56:54
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 2024cou
Discoverer internal name: ZTF24aaelfhf
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 03:02:15.329 (45.563869179049) DEC = +32:45:48.98 (32.763605072094)
Discovery date: 2024-02-11 03:16:13.002 (JD=2460351.6362616)

Potential host galaxy: WISEA J030215.34+324548.9

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/ZTF24aaelfhf

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-02-11 03:16:13.002
Flux: 20.5789 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2024-01-31 07:14:01
Limiting flux: 19.4963 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/2024cou