TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 105834 [ 2021TNSTR1123....1C ]

Date Received (UTC): 2021-04-09 04:29:31
Date made public:
Sender: Jiawen Yang
Reporting Group: DESIRT     Discovery Data Source: DESIRT

Xingzhuo Chen (Texas A&M U.), Lei Hu (Purple Mountain Observatory), Jiawen Yang (Texas A&M U.), Jian Tao (Texas A&M U.), Lifan Wang (Texas A&M U.), Xiaofeng Wang (Tsinghua University), Antonella Palmese (KICP), Dietrich Baade (ESO), Segev BenZvi (U. of Rochester), Jeffery Cooke (Swinburne U.), Kyle Dawson (The University of Utah), Melissa Graham (University of Washington), Ji-an Jiang (The University of Tokyo), Alex Kim (LBNL), Anton Koekemoer (STSci), Wenxiong Li (Tel Aviv U.), Jeremy Mould (Swinburne U.), Peter Nugent (LBNL), Ferdinando Patat (ESO), Peter Brown (Texas A&M U.), Syed A. Uddin (Carnegie Observatories), Jujia Zhang (Yunnan Astronomical Observatory) report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2021irn
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 14:28:44.827 (217.18678) DEC = +00:42:46.94 (0.71304)
Discovery date: 2021-04-06 05:56:54.000 (JD=2459310.7478472)


Remarks: Possibly very young Type Ia supernova

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2021-04-06 05:56:54.000
Flux: 21.693 ABMag
Filter: g-Sloan
Instrument: DECAM
Telescope: CTIO - 4-m Victor M. Blanco Telescope

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2021-04-02 00:00:00
Limiting flux: 24 ABMag
Filter: g-Sloan
Instrument: DECAM
Telescope: CTIO - 4-m Victor M. Blanco Telescope


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