TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 219622 [ 2024TNSTR2624....1F ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-07-28 02:47:59
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 2024qfo
Discoverer internal name: ZTF24aaxhtbm
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 21:41:55.678 (325.4819937) DEC = -26:02:19.12 (-26.038644)
Discovery date: 2024-07-27 08:03:49.000 (JD=2460518.8359838)

Potential host galaxy: WISEA J214155.82-260220.9

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/ZTF24aaxhtbm

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-07-27 08:03:49.000
Flux: 19.5964 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2024-07-24 09:33:43
Limiting flux: 18.5394 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/2024qfo