TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 104874 [ 2021TNSTR1020....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2021-04-03 02:10:24
Date made public:
Sender: Ismael Perez-Fournon
Reporting Group: SGLF     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

R. Marques-Chaves (Univ. of Geneva), I. Perez-Fournon, C. Jimenez Angel, F. Poidevin (IAC & ULL), R. Shirley (Univ. of Southampton), 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: AT 2021htm
Discoverer internal name: ZTF21aarhgkq
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 14:09:31.455 (212.381063) DEC = +29:44:03.18 (29.734217)
Discovery date: 2021-03-24 07:55:26.000 (JD=2459297.830162)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J140931.49+294402.7
Host redshift: 0.0641717

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), Fink (https://fink-broker.org), 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: 2021-03-24 07:55:26.000
Flux: 20.132 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2021-03-24 06:51:32
Limiting flux: 19.638 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/2021htm