TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 45369 [ 2019TNSTR1647....1F ]

Date Received (UTC): 2019-08-28 13:46:49
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

F. Forster on behalf of the ALeRCE broker report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2019ovn
Discoverer internal name: ZTF19abtzksc
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 23:11:30.549 (347.8772885) DEC = -10:09:13.08 (-10.1536339)
Discovery date: 2019-08-28 09:03:14.000 (JD=2458723.8772454)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J231130.61-100919.9
Host redshift: 0.099

Remarks: Early SN candidate classified by ALeRCE using the public ZTF stream. Discovery image and light curve in http://alerce.online/vue/object/ZTF19abtzksc

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2019-08-28 09:03:14.000
Flux: 19.6301 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2019-08-25 09:22:16
Limiting flux: 20.086 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://sandbox.wis-tns.org/object/2019ovn