TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 136124 [ 2022TNSTR.359....1A ]

Date Received (UTC): 2022-02-11 11:32:01
Date made public:
Sender: Maria Pruzhinskaya
Reporting Group: SNAD     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

Patrick Aleo on behalf of the SNAD team report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2018maa
Discoverer internal name: SNAD171
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 16:47:54.749 (251.97812) DEC = +37:57:16.81 (37.95467)
Discovery date: 2018-03-26 12:02:26.161 (JD=2458204.0016917)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2018-03-26 12:02:26.161
Flux: 18.77 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: The discovery is based on machine learning algorithms. For the first photometric point reference magnitude is 20.18 mag. ZTF DR OID 723103100016148 (zg), ZTF Alert ID ZTF18aaltvdm.

Last non-detection:
Archival info: SDSS

Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2018maa