TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 44454 [ 2019TNSTR1560....1F ]

Date Received (UTC): 2019-08-21 15:39:16
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

F. Forster on behalf of the ALeRCE broker report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: SN 2019obw
Discoverer internal name: ZTF19abqxhhr
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 00:44:31.435 (11.1309794) DEC = -01:31:20.19 (-1.5222745)
Discovery date: 2019-08-21 10:01:41.000 (JD=2458716.9178356)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J004431.33-013118.5
Host redshift: 0.075

Remarks: Early SN candidate classified by ALeRCE using the public ZTF stream. Discovery image and light curve in http://alerce.online/vue/object/ZTF19abqxhhr

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2019-08-21 10:01:41.000
Flux: 19.0081 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2019-08-17 10:02:20
Limiting flux: 19.2897 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2019obw