TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 209633 [ 2024TNSTR1414....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-05-07 21:13:51
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, L. Galbany, J. Silva-Farfan, R. Dastidar, J.P. Brandt, 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 2024igu
Discoverer internal name: ZTF24aamipps
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 17:50:15.565 (267.56485378789) DEC = +31:36:33.89 (31.609412802232)
Discovery date: 2024-05-06 09:55:30.003 (JD=2460436.9135417)

Potential host galaxy: WISEA J175014.99+313629.5

Remarks: Early SN candidate (g-rise > 0.15+-0.07 mag/day, r-rise > 0.27+-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/ZTF24aamipps

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-05-06 09:55:30.003
Flux: 20.4348 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2024-05-06 09:29:30
Limiting flux: 19.6061 ABMag
Filter: i-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/2024igu