TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 139035 [ 2022TNSTR.590....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2022-03-03 20:31:39
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

A. Munoz-Arancibia, F. Forster, F.E. Bauer, 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, A. Moya E. Reyes, I. Reyes, P. Sanchez-Saez, 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 2022efl
Discoverer internal name: ZTF22aaayceg
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 11:29:16.240 (172.3176655) DEC = +55:44:53.10 (55.7480841)
Discovery date: 2022-02-26 09:46:37.001 (JD=2459636.9073727)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J112916.35+554453.1

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/ZTF22aaayceg

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2022-02-26 09:46:37.001
Flux: 20.4926 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2022-02-18 09:49:46
Limiting flux: 19.391 ABMag
Filter: r-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/2022efl