TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 210518 [ 2024TNSTR1536....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-05-16 19:27:16
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

A. Munoz-Arancibia, G. Pignata, F. Forster, F.E. Bauer, 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 2024izb
Discoverer internal name: ZTF24aaobewb
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 20:09:24.355 (302.3514776) DEC = +48:50:33.85 (48.842736)
Discovery date: 2024-05-16 10:45:32.999 (JD=2460446.9482986)

Potential host galaxy: WISEA J200924.35+485033.8

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/ZTF24aaobewb

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-05-16 10:45:32.999
Flux: 20.248 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2024-05-16 10:10:02
Limiting flux: 20.8011 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/2024izb