TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 96125 [ 2021TNSTR..77....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2021-01-08 19:18:22
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 2021sl
Discoverer internal name: ZTF21aachbpq
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 09:21:59.226 (140.4967766) DEC = -07:33:15.77 (-7.5543795)
Discovery date: 2021-01-08 08:30:26.001 (JD=2459222.8544676)

Potential host galaxy: WISEA J092158.83-073322.8

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/ZTF21aachbpq

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2021-01-08 08:30:26.001
Flux: 19.6895 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2021-01-06 10:34:43
Limiting flux: 19.2164 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/2021sl