TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 109734 [ 2021TNSTR1636....1F ]

Date Received (UTC): 2021-05-15 20:54:06
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 2021mkv
Discoverer internal name: ZTF21abbohfy
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 12:02:20.758 (180.5864909) DEC = +02:46:37.11 (2.7769739)
Discovery date: 2021-05-13 04:14:33.999 (JD=2459347.6767824)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J120220.88+024634.8

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/ZTF21abbohfy

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2021-05-13 04:14:33.999
Flux: 20.4908 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2021-05-10 06:07:46
Limiting flux: 20.686 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/2021mkv