TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 108098 [ 2021TNSTR1413....1F ]

Date Received (UTC): 2021-05-02 17:31:10
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

F. Forster, F.E. Bauer, A. Munoz-Arancibia, G. Pignata, A. Mourao, L. Hernandez-Garcia, L. Galbany, E. Camacho, J. Silva-Farfan, 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: AT 2021kyg
Discoverer internal name: ZTF21aaxvpnu
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 15:56:29.123 (239.12134736667) DEC = +43:15:35.34 (43.2598179)
Discovery date: 2021-04-30 05:50:35.998 (JD=2459334.7434722)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J155629.07+431533.0
Host redshift: 0.07087988

Remarks: SN candidate 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/ZTF21aaxvpnu

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2021-04-30 05:50:35.998
Flux: 20.3387 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2021-04-24 07:53:27
Limiting flux: 19.6385 ABMag
Filter: g-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/2021kyg