TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 143759 [ 2022TNSTR.877....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2022-04-05 00:55:40
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: SN 2022gnc
Discoverer internal name: ZTF18aatmlsy
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 16:13:06.144 (243.2755984) DEC = +38:03:52.07 (38.06446375)
Discovery date: 2022-04-04 09:09:31.000 (JD=2459673.8816088)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J161306.13+380352.5

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/ZTF18aatmlsy

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2022-04-04 09:09:31.000
Flux: 17.9952 ABMag
Filter: r-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/2022gnc