TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 122376 [ 2021TNSTR3034....1F ]

Date Received (UTC): 2021-09-04 18:44:53
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 2021xxa
Discoverer internal name: ZTF21abxqkcf
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 21:57:17.273 (329.3219697) DEC = -17:30:33.36 (-17.5092667)
Discovery date: 2021-09-02 06:06:49.000 (JD=2459459.7547338)

Potential host galaxy: WISEA J215717.37-173033.7

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/ZTF21abxqkcf

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2021-09-02 06:06:49.000
Flux: 20.4128 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2021-08-29 07:34:28
Limiting flux: 20.0286 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/2021xxa