TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 138210 [ 2022TNSTR.548....1A ]

Date Received (UTC): 2022-02-28 14:23:55
Date made public:
Sender: Maria Pruzhinskaya
Reporting Group: SNAD     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

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

IAU Designation: AT 2018mal
Discoverer internal name: SNAD173
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 14:59:08.474 (224.78531) DEC = +69:57:48.53 (69.96348)
Discovery date: 2018-03-25 06:56:14.963 (JD=2458202.7890621)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2018-03-25 06:56:14.963
Flux: 19.03 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 21.63 mag. ZTF DR OID 845109400000132 (zg), ZTF Alert ID ZTF18aaogxaf .

Last non-detection:
Archival info: DSS

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