TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 190582 [ 2023TNSTR2575....1A ]

Date Received (UTC): 2023-10-13 20:46:08
Date made public:
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Reporting Group: ANTARES     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

Patrick Aleo (UIUC) report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2018mib
Discoverer internal name: ZTF18absqohp
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 01:46:48.207 (26.7008615) DEC = +13:09:31.29 (13.158691)
Discovery date: 2018-09-05 09:04:58.080 (JD=2458366.8784491)


Remarks: Supernova candidate identified by the LAISS pipeline (Aleo et al. 2023, in prep), via an exhaustive search. See locus info at: https://antares.noirlab.edu/loci/ANT2018gxehe

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2018-09-05 09:04:58.080
Flux: 20.2506 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2018-09-02 09:39:15
Limiting flux: 20.0349 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin


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