TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 229826 [ 2024TNSTR4084....1P ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-10-21 21:48:06
Date made public:
Sender: Rupesh Durgesh
Reporting Group: COIN     Discovery Data Source: Fink

P. Pessi (OKC), R. Durgesh (independent), E. E. O. Ishida (CNRS), E. E. Hayes (KIC), L. Nakazono (USP), R. A. P. Oliveira (UW), A. Moitinho (CENTRA), A. Krone-Martins (UC), B. Moews (UE), R. S. de Souza (UH), R. Beck (independent), M. A. Kuhn (UH), K. Nowak (UH), and S. Vaughan (MU), for the COIN collaboration. report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2024yro
Discoverer internal name: ZTF24abhgcak
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 22:56:48.088 (344.200367) DEC = -02:13:48.08 (-2.2300216)
Discovery date: 2024-09-19 00:00:00.000 (JD=2460572.5)


Remarks: Transient discovered using the ELEPHANT pipeline for hostless events on the public ZTF stream accessed through the Fink broker

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-09-19 00:00:00.000
Flux: 19.752 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2024-09-16 00:00:00
Limiting flux: 19.1821 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin


Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2024yro