TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 216854 [ 2024TNSTR2221....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-07-03 20:53:10
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

A. Munoz-Arancibia, F.E. Bauer, F. Forster, G. Pignata, 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 2024ntg
Discoverer internal name: ZTF24aauepww
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 16:31:28.073 (247.8669712) DEC = +06:38:33.04 (6.6425102)
Discovery date: 2024-07-03 06:08:11.996 (JD=2460494.7556944)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J163127.90+063833.4

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/ZTF24aauepww

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-07-03 06:08:11.996
Flux: 20.1048 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2024-06-29 06:58:52
Limiting flux: 20.4734 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/2024ntg