Discovery certificate for object 2021jfz
TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 106354 [ 2021TNSTR1165....1C ]

Date Received (UTC): 2021-04-12 08:19:55
Sender: DECam Survey for Intermediate Redshift Transients (DESIRT_Bot)
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), Peter Brown (Texas A&M U.), 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), Syed A. Uddin (Carnegie Observatories), Jujia Zhang (Yunnan Astronomical Observatory) report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2021jfz
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 14:52:54.864 (223.2286) DEC = +00:20:53.88 (0.3483)
Discovery date: 2021-04-06 05:41:22.014 (JD=2459310.73706034)


Remarks: Discovery-date corrected on 2021-05-09 following the reporters re-analysis.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2021-04-06 05:41:22.014
Flux: 22.2136 ABMag
Filter: r-Sloan
Instrument: DECAM
Telescope: CTIO - 4-m Victor M. Blanco Telescope

Remarks: Obsdate, filter, flux+err corrected on 2021-05-09 following the reporters re-analysis.

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2021-04-03 08:14:03
Limiting flux: 22.9073 ABMag
Filter: g-Sloan
Instrument: DECAM
Telescope: CTIO - 4-m Victor M. Blanco Telescope

Remarks: Obsdate, filter, limflux corrected on 2021-05-09 following the reporters re-analysis.

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