Discovery certificate for object 2021ark
TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 97145 [ 2021TNSTR.172....1F ]

Date Received (UTC): 2021-01-17 19:17:20
Sender: ZTF (ALeRCE)
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

F. Forster, F.E. Bauer, G. Pignata, A. Munoz-Arancibia, L. Hernandez-Garcia, 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 2021ark
Discoverer internal name: ZTF21aaflcpl
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 12:12:49.937 (183.2080697) DEC = +02:40:12.98 (2.670272)
Discovery date: 2021-01-17 11:00:30.997 (JD=2459231.9586921)

Potential host galaxy: WISEA J121249.91+024012.9
Host redshift: 0.077181

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/ZTF21aaflcpl

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2021-01-17 11:00:30.997
Flux: 20.5083 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2021-01-15 11:13:01
Limiting flux: 19.606 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/2021ark