TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 143202 [ 2022TNSTR.859....1F ]

Date Received (UTC): 2022-04-03 00:18:19
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

F. Forster, A. Munoz-Arancibia, F.E. Bauer, G. Pignata, A. Mourao, R. Dastidar, 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 2022fxq
Discoverer internal name: ZTF22aadmoml
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 10:14:04.551 (153.51896445) DEC = +17:27:30.14 (17.4583717)
Discovery date: 2022-04-02 06:44:54.997 (JD=2459671.7811921)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J101404.61+172729.9

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/ZTF22aadmoml

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2022-04-02 06:44:54.997
Flux: 20.7746 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Archival info: Other
Remarks: ZTF non-detection limits not available

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