TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 144099 [ 2022TNSTR.894....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2022-04-07 21:23:13
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

A. Munoz-Arancibia, G. Pignata, F. Forster, F.E. Bauer, 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 2022gwj
Discoverer internal name: ZTF22aaeutrf
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 09:15:50.495 (138.9603949) DEC = +30:40:45.58 (30.6793268)
Discovery date: 2022-04-07 04:16:47.004 (JD=2459676.6783218)

Potential host galaxy: WISEA J091550.45+304045.3
Host redshift: 0.102382

Remarks: Early SN candidate (r-rise > 0.34+-0.10 mag/day) 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/ZTF22aaeutrf

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2022-04-07 04:16:47.004
Flux: 19.5271 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2022-04-05 09:23:46
Limiting flux: 19.467 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/2022gwj