TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 102872 [ 2021TNSTR.797....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2021-03-18 19:19:04
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: SN 2021gdm
Discoverer internal name: ZTF21aaptmrn
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 15:49:33.053 (237.387721) DEC = +04:40:15.54 (4.6709825)
Discovery date: 2021-03-18 09:08:45.001 (JD=2459291.8810764)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J154933.03+044015.6

Remarks: Early SN candidate (r-rise > 0.08+-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/ZTF21aaptmrn

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2021-03-18 09:08:45.001
Flux: 19.7845 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2021-03-09 12:06:23
Limiting flux: 20.5088 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/2021gdm