TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 190640 [ 2023TNSTR2575....1A ]

Date Received (UTC): 2023-10-13 21:28:19
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 2018mkb
Discoverer internal name: ZTF18acurkik
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 11:10:59.822 (167.7492589) DEC = +13:30:10.88 (13.5030229)
Discovery date: 2018-12-09 11:33:24.192 (JD=2458461.9815278)


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/ANT20194nsoc

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2018-12-09 11:33:24.192
Flux: 19.5495 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2018-11-28 12:28:57
Limiting flux: 19.8489 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/2018mkb