Discovery certificate for object 2021fbc
TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 101733 [ 2021TNSTR.722....1P ]

Date Received (UTC): 2021-03-08 08:49:51
Sender: Dr. Ismael Perez-Fournon
Reporting Group: SGLF     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

I. Perez-Fournon, C. Jimenez Angel, F. Poidevin (IAC & ULL), R. Shirley (Univ. of Southampton), R. Marques-Chaves (Univ. of Geneva), S. Geier (GRANTECAN & IAC), Y. Shu (MPA), S. Rodney, J. Roberts-Pierel (Univ. of South Carolina), A. Bolton (NSF's NOIRLab), S. Chakrabarti, P. Craig, and B. Alamiri (RIT) report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: SN 2021fbc
Discoverer internal name: ZTF21aaoexgy
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 14:18:39.827 (214.665946) DEC = +19:44:53.91 (19.748308)
Discovery date: 2021-03-05 08:09:53.000 (JD=2459278.8401968)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J141839.83+194458.5

Remarks: Data were provided by the Zwicky Transient Facility (https://www.ztf.caltech.edu) and processed through the Lasair (https://lasair.roe.ac.uk), ALeRCE (https://alerce.online), ANTARES (https://antares.noirlab.edu), and MARS (https://mars.lco.global) brokers and our SGLF ZTF database and filters.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2021-03-05 08:09:53.000
Flux: 19.289 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2021-03-02 10:08:19
Limiting flux: 19.595 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin


Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2021fbc