TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 110153 [ 2021TNSTR1729....1Y ]

Date Received (UTC): 2021-05-20 05:02:07
Date made public:
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Reporting Group: DESIRT     Discovery Data Source: DESIRT

Jiawen Yang (Texas A&M U.), Xingzhuo Chen (Texas A&M U.), Lei Hu (Purple Mountain Observatory), Jian Tao (Texas A&M U.), Lifan Wang (Texas A&M U.), Xiaofeng Wang (Tsinghua University), Antonella Palmese (KICP), Dietrich Baade (ESO), Segev BenZvi (U. of Rochester), Peter Brown (Texas A&M U.), Jeffery Cooke (Swinburne U.), Kyle Dawson (The University of Utah), Melissa Graham (University of Washington), Ji-an Jiang (The University of Tokyo), Alex Kim (LBNL), Anton Koekemoer (STSci), Wenxiong Li (Tel Aviv U.), Jeremy Mould (Swinburne U.), Peter Nugent (LBNL), Ferdinando Patat (ESO), Syed A. Uddin (Carnegie Observatories), Jujia Zhang (Yunnan Astronomical Observatory) report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2021mtz
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 14:55:34.940 (223.89558217) DEC = +00:55:01.08 (0.91696701)
Discovery date: 2021-05-18 02:34:57.504 (JD=2459352.6076122)



Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2021-05-18 02:34:57.504
Flux: 21.4535 ABMag
Filter: g-Sloan
Instrument: DECAM
Telescope: CTIO - 4-m Victor M. Blanco Telescope

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2021-05-12 04:22:44
Limiting flux: 23.7689 ABMag
Filter: g-Sloan
Instrument: DECAM
Telescope: CTIO - 4-m Victor M. Blanco Telescope


Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2021mtz