TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 147580 [ 2022TNSTR1354....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2022-05-20 18:27:00
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, R. Hoshino, 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 2022kff
Discoverer internal name: ZTF22aaklcbh
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 13:26:10.992 (201.5458012) DEC = +53:27:00.24 (53.4500672)
Discovery date: 2022-05-20 04:50:28.003 (JD=2459719.701713)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J132610.96+532700.4

Remarks: SN candidate classified using ALeRCE's stamp classifier (Carrasco-Davis et al. 2021) and the public ZTF stream. Discovery image and light curve in http://alerce.online/object/ZTF22aaklcbh

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2022-05-20 04:50:28.003
Flux: 20.735 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2022-05-16 06:27:13
Limiting flux: 19.5048 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/2022kff