TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 108421 [ 2021TNSTR1465....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2021-05-05 23:16:42
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

A. Munoz-Arancibia, F. Forster, F.E. Bauer, G. Pignata, L. Hernandez-Garcia, L. Galbany, E. Camacho, J. Silva-Farfan, A. Mourao, 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 2021lgp
Discoverer internal name: ZTF21aazcgmr
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 15:41:38.657 (235.41107185) DEC = -03:48:58.53 (-3.8162584)
Discovery date: 2021-04-30 08:31:14.998 (JD=2459334.8550347)

Potential host galaxy: WISEA J154138.45-034853.1
Host redshift: 0.106537

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/ZTF21aazcgmr

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2021-04-30 08:31:14.998
Flux: 20.2693 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2021-04-24 06:47:14
Limiting flux: 19.5982 ABMag
Filter: r-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/2021lgp