TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 108485 [ 2021TNSTR1465....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2021-05-05 23:49:52
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 2021lja
Discoverer internal name: ZTF21aayytiz
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 12:46:42.846 (191.6785232) DEC = -04:14:58.44 (-4.2495661)
Discovery date: 2021-05-05 05:03:42.002 (JD=2459339.7109028)

Potential host galaxy: WISEA J124642.86-041501.5
Host redshift: 0.0683

Remarks: Early SN candidate (g-rise > 0.17+-0.06 mag/day) 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/ZTF21aayytiz

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2021-05-05 05:03:42.002
Flux: 20.0506 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2021-05-02 07:32:51
Limiting flux: 20.5966 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/2021lja