TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 221078 [ 2024TNSTR2779....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-08-06 14:07:03
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 2024rma
Discoverer internal name: ZTF24aayircu
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 21:43:51.275 (325.96364627537) DEC = +31:33:26.09 (31.557248462517)
Discovery date: 2024-08-03 07:20:30.002 (JD=2460525.8059028)


Remarks: Early SN candidate (g-rise > 0.13+-0.04 mag/day, r-rise > 0.13+-0.04 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/ZTF24aayircu

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-08-03 07:20:30.002
Flux: 19.944 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2024-07-30 09:45:21
Limiting flux: 20.4476 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/2024rma