TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 252353 [ 2025TNSTR1481....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2025-04-22 19:47:46
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

A. Munoz-Arancibia, G. Pignata, F.E. Bauer, F. Forster, A. Mourao, S. Jurado, 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 2025icd
Discoverer internal name: ZTF25aankxwe
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 16:03:01.079 (240.75449384999) DEC = +44:34:45.43 (44.57928525)
Discovery date: 2025-04-20 08:22:17.996 (JD=2460785.8488194)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J160301.25+443447.1

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/ZTF25aankxwe

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2025-04-20 08:22:17.996
Flux: 20.3956 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2025-04-15 09:06:56
Limiting flux: 19.9311 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/2025icd