TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 102682 [ 2021TNSTR.779....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2021-03-17 20:17:34
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

A. Munoz-Arancibia, F. Forster, F.E. Bauer, G. Pignata, 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 2021fyo
Discoverer internal name: ZTF21aapfhzr
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 10:42:17.175 (160.5715619) DEC = +04:14:34.49 (4.24291345)
Discovery date: 2021-03-17 06:06:11.002 (JD=2459290.754294)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J104217.16+041434.2

Remarks: Early SN candidate (r-rise > 0.07+-0.02 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/ZTF21aapfhzr

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2021-03-17 06:06:11.002
Flux: 19.9227 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2021-03-07 06:54:35
Limiting flux: 20.6157 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/2021fyo