TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 240674 [ 2025TNSTR..64....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2025-01-06 18:01:01
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

A. Munoz-Arancibia, F.E. Bauer, G. Pignata, F. Forster, 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, 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 2025ev
Discoverer internal name: ZTF25aaatnmd
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 01:04:09.006 (16.037523799977) DEC = +40:42:48.30 (40.7134168)
Discovery date: 2025-01-04 03:58:08.996 (JD=2460679.6653819)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J010409.00+404248.9

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/ZTF25aaatnmd

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2025-01-04 03:58:08.996
Flux: 20.6008 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2025-01-02 04:43:30
Limiting flux: 20.4595 ABMag
Filter: g-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/2025ev