TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 144520 [ 2022TNSTR.926....1F ]

Date Received (UTC): 2022-04-10 20:35:01
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

F. Forster, F.E. Bauer, A. Munoz-Arancibia, 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 2022hhj
Discoverer internal name: ZTF22aaetxnt
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 16:32:10.534 (248.04389163333) DEC = +40:40:08.15 (40.6689314)
Discovery date: 2022-04-04 09:51:58.997 (JD=2459673.9110995)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J163210.81+404009.3

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/ZTF22aaetxnt

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2022-04-04 09:51:58.997
Flux: 20.7199 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2022-04-04 09:51:17
Limiting flux: 20.4258 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/2022hhj