TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 210459 [ 2024TNSTR1521....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2024-05-15 19:19:52
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 2024ixf
Discoverer internal name: ZTF24aanxfzz
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 20:50:36.036 (312.650149) DEC = -17:26:50.05 (-17.4472366)
Discovery date: 2024-05-15 11:06:01.996 (JD=2460445.9625231)

Potential host galaxy: WISEA J205036.17-172648.2

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/ZTF24aanxfzz

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2024-05-15 11:06:01.996
Flux: 19.7376 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Archival info: Other
Remarks: ZTF non-detection limits not available

Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://sandbox.wis-tns.org/object/2024ixf