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We report the discovery of a faint optical tidal disruption event (TDE) inthe nearby star-forming galaxy NGC 3799. Identification of the TDE is based onits position at the galaxy nucleus, a light curve declining as t^-5/3, a bluecontinuum with an almost constant blackbody temperature of ~12,000K, and broad(~15,000kms^-1) Balmer lines and characteristic He~II 4686A emission. The lightcurve of AT 2023clx peaked at an absolute magnitude of -17.16mag in the g-bandand a maximum blackbody bolometric luminosity of 4.56*10^42 ergs^-1, making itthe faintest TDE discovered to date. With a redshift of 0.01107 and acorresponding luminosity distance of 47.8Mpc, it is also the closest opticalTDE ever discovered to our best knowledge. Furthermore, our analysis ofSwift/XRT observations of AT 2023clx yields a very tight 3 sigma upper limit of9.53*10^39 ergs^-1 in the range 0.3--10keV. AT 2023clx, together with very fewother faint TDEs such as AT 2020wey, prove that there are probably a largenumber of faint TDEs yet to be discovered at higher redshifts, which isconsistent with the prediction of luminosity functions (LFs). The upcomingdeeper optical time-domain surveys, such as the Legacy Survey of Space and Time(LSST) and the Wide-Field Survey Telescope (WFST) will discover more TDEs ateven lower luminosities, allowing for a more precise constraint of the low-endof the LF.

AT 2023clx: the Faintest and Closest Optical Tidal Disruption Event Discovered in Nearby Star-forming Galaxy NGC 3799