TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 108572 [ 2021TNSTR1483....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2021-05-06 22:22:24
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 2021llh
Discoverer internal name: ZTF21aazibqb
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 12:11:43.015 (182.92922825) DEC = -02:10:17.62 (-2.1715598)
Discovery date: 2021-05-04 07:30:09.996 (JD=2459338.8126157)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J121142.99-021016.5

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/ZTF21aazibqb

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2021-05-04 07:30:09.996
Flux: 20.471 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2021-05-04 05:34:47
Limiting flux: 20.4662 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/2021llh