TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 48722 [ 2019TNSTR1992....1F ]

Date Received (UTC): 2019-10-05 20:53:42
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: AT 2019rzn
Discoverer internal name: ZTF19acctlcg
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 16:22:06.124 (245.5255178) DEC = +39:20:38.97 (39.3441577)
Discovery date: 2019-10-05 02:47:33.000 (JD=2458761.6163542)

Potential host galaxy: 2MASS J16220624+3920385
Host redshift: 0.101883

Remarks: Early SN candidate classified by ALeRCE using the public ZTF stream. Discovery image and light curve in http://alerce.online/object/ZTF19acctlcg

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2019-10-05 02:47:33.000
Flux: 19.7035 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2019-09-18 03:18:40
Limiting flux: 20.5572 ABMag
Filter: g-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/2019rzn