Discovery certificate for object 2021ifb
TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 105280 [ 2021TNSTR1064....1S ]

Date Received (UTC): 2021-04-05 00:56:45
Sender: Dr. Ismael Perez-Fournon
Reporting Group: SGLF     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

R. Shirley (Univ. of Southampton), I. Perez-Fournon, C. Jimenez Angel, F. Poidevin (IAC & ULL), 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: AT 2021ifb
Discoverer internal name: ZTF21aarowzo
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 10:36:55.498 (159.231242) DEC = +43:11:19.62 (43.188783)
Discovery date: 2021-04-02 07:16:39.000 (JD=2459306.8032292)


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: 2021-04-02 07:16:39.000
Flux: 20.246 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2021-04-02 05:57:53
Limiting flux: 20.585 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/2021ifb