TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 99840 [ 2021TNSTR.503....1F ]

Date Received (UTC): 2021-02-18 20:05:04
Date made public:
Sender: 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 2021dew
Discoverer internal name: ZTF21aakiufw
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 13:13:52.652 (198.469382925) DEC = +44:11:06.51 (44.18514235)
Discovery date: 2021-02-11 11:51:40.997 (JD=2459256.9942245)

Potential host galaxy: 2MASX J13135375+4410548
Host redshift: 0.07625

Remarks: Early SN candidate (g-rise > 0.45+-0.19 mag/day, r-rise > 0.11+-0.04 mag/day) 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/ZTF21aakiufw

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2021-02-11 11:51:40.997
Flux: 20.414 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2021-02-10 09:55:35
Limiting flux: 20.9571 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/2021dew