Discovery certificate for object 2016jiy
TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 34853 [ 2019TNSTR.763....1T ]

Date Received (UTC): 2019-05-13 10:48:58
Sender: Ms. Melina Thévenot
Reporting Group: None     Discovery Data Source: None

Ine Theunissen report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2016jiy
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 08:44:31.128 (131.1297) DEC = +18:17:13.56 (18.2871)
Discovery date: 2016-01-13 06:15:09.000 (JD=2457400.7605208)

Potential host galaxy: IC 2392
Host redshift: 0.020808

Remarks: The transient was first discovered by Ine Theunissen in the galaxy zoo website. See discussion: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/zookeeper/galaxy-zoo/talk/1268/996160

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2016-01-13 06:15:09.000
Flux: 19.56 ABMag
Filter: r-Sloan
Instrument: DECAM
Telescope: CTIO - 4-m Victor M. Blanco Telescope

Remarks: The Apparent Magnitude was calculated with APT by Melina Thévenot, using a reference star in Pan-STARRS (http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-5?-ref=VIZ5cd939042595&-out.add=.&-source=II/349/ps1&-c=131.116761890%20%2b18.265797100,eq=J2000,rs=2&-out.orig=o) an Absolute Magnitude of -15.23 was also calculated.

Last non-detection:
Archival info: SDSS

Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2016jiy