TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 166239 [ 2022TNSTR3517....1C ]

Date Received (UTC): 2022-12-02 03:09:57
Date made public:
Sender: Wenlei Chen
Reporting Group: None     Discovery Data Source: JWST-ERS

Wenlei Chen (UMN), Patrick Kelly (UMN), Marco Castellano (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma), Jose Diego (IFCA, CSIC-UC), Lei Hu (Purple Mountain Observatory), Justin Pierel (STScI), Tommaso Treu (UCLA), Lifan Wang (TAMU), Xin Wang (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences), Rogier Windhorst (Arizona State University), Adi Zitrin (Ben-Gurion University) report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2022acfv
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 00:14:19.659 (3.581912) DEC = -30:23:51.08 (-30.397521)
Discovery date: 2022-10-20 00:00:00.000 (JD=2459872.5)

Host redshift: 2.7


Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2022-10-20 00:00:00.000
Flux: 29.38 ABMag
Filter: F115W-JWST
Instrument: NIRCam
Telescope: James Webb Space Telescope

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2022-06-29 00:00:00
Limiting flux: 30.4 ABMag
Filter: F200W-JWST
Instrument: NIRISS
Telescope: James Webb Space Telescope


Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2022acfv