TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 243145 [ 2025TNSTR.436....1F ]

Date Received (UTC): 2025-02-01 23:55:45
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 2025aqj
Discoverer internal name: ZTF25aadnzrg
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 09:47:59.179 (146.99657804125) DEC = +04:51:37.42 (4.8603952202047)
Discovery date: 2025-02-01 06:57:52.001 (JD=2460707.7901852)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J094759.31+045136.7

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/ZTF25aadnzrg

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2025-02-01 06:57:52.001
Flux: 20.851 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2025-01-24 07:58:14
Limiting flux: 20.0327 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/2025aqj