TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 248700 [ 2025TNSTR1005....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2025-03-17 17:13:17
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 2025ess
Discoverer internal name: ZTF25aajbbol
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 05:38:27.653 (84.6152203) DEC = +70:53:11.13 (70.8864251)
Discovery date: 2025-03-17 04:42:15.998 (JD=2460751.6960185)

Potential host galaxy: WISEA J053827.67+705311.4

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/ZTF25aajbbol

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2025-03-17 04:42:15.998
Flux: 19.7291 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2025-03-16 06:28:10
Limiting flux: 19.7068 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/2025ess