TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 234818 [ 2024TNSTR4717....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-12-02 20:15:25
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

A. Munoz-Arancibia, G. Pignata, F.E. Bauer, 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 2024adfa
Discoverer internal name: ZTF24abvggin
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 10:08:17.511 (152.0729633) DEC = -23:26:39.06 (-23.4441834)
Discovery date: 2024-12-02 12:02:05.997 (JD=2460647.0014583)

Potential host galaxy: 6dFGS gJ100817.5-232643
Host redshift: 0.05435

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/ZTF24abvggin

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-12-02 12:02:05.997
Flux: 19.888 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2024-11-29 13:32:39
Limiting flux: 16.515 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/2024adfa