TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 206086 [ 2024TNSTR.832....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-03-28 21:54:48
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

A. Munoz-Arancibia, F.E. Bauer, F. Forster, G. Pignata, 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, P. Gallardo, P. Huijse, H. Larranaga, E. Pizarro, I. Reyes, P. Sanchez-Saez, A. Sepulveda, 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 2024fay
Discoverer internal name: ZTF24aahvvrj
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 09:09:55.124 (137.4796817548) DEC = +25:32:01.08 (25.533633004367)
Discovery date: 2024-03-28 06:40:34.000 (JD=2460397.7781713)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J090955.14+253201.1
Host redshift: 0.07639176

Remarks: Early SN candidate (r-rise > 0.10+-0.00 mag/day) 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/ZTF24aahvvrj

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-03-28 06:40:34.000
Flux: 18.6936 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2024-03-23 05:44:57
Limiting flux: 17.1898 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://sandbox.wis-tns.org/object/2024fay