TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 92519 [ 2020TNSTR3744....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-12-11 20:24:22
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

A. Munoz-Arancibia, F. Forster, F.E. Bauer, L. Hernandez-Garcia, G. Pignata, L. Galbany, E. Camacho, J. Silva-Farfan, A. Mourao, J. Arredondo, G. Cabrera-Vives, R. Carrasco-Davis, P.A. Estevez, P. Huijse, E. Reyes, I. Reyes, P. Sanchez-Saez, C. Valenzuela, E. Castillo, D. Ruz-Mieres, D. Rodriguez-Mancini, M. Catelan, S. Eyheramendy, M.J. Graham on behalf of the ALeRCE broker report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2020acjx
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20acwymez
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 11:10:37.097 (167.6545727) DEC = +21:06:53.87 (21.1149627)
Discovery date: 2020-12-11 12:27:14.999 (JD=2459195.0189236)

Potential host galaxy: WHL J111036.8+210653
Host redshift: 0.1349

Remarks: SN candidate classified using ALeRCE's stamp classifier - see http://arxiv.org/abs/2008.03309 - and the public ZTF stream. Discovery image and light curve in http://alerce.online/object/ZTF20acwymez

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-12-11 12:27:14.999
Flux: 20.0647 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-12-09 12:52:39
Limiting flux: 18.8901 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/2020acjx