TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 95747 [ 2021TNSTR..54....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2021-01-06 22:18:24
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

A. Munoz-Arancibia, F. Forster, F.E. Bauer, L. Hernandez-Garcia, G. Pignata, 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 2021lk
Discoverer internal name: ZTF21aaaqzta
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 22:14:28.305 (333.61793745) DEC = +16:24:16.29 (16.40452405)
Discovery date: 2021-01-04 03:11:23.001 (JD=2459218.6329051)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J221428.38+162415.9
Host redshift: 0.097

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/ZTF21aaaqzta

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2021-01-04 03:11:23.001
Flux: 19.3788 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2021-01-01 02:19:09
Limiting flux: 19.8851 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/2021lk