TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 150124 [ 2022TNSTR1632....1F ]

Date Received (UTC): 2022-06-11 17:58:18
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

F. Forster, F.E. Bauer, G. Pignata, A. Munoz-Arancibia, 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 2022mnu
Discoverer internal name: ZTF22aanyfjl
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 21:51:24.366 (327.85152445) DEC = +08:39:29.40 (8.65816695)
Discovery date: 2022-06-09 09:45:12.001 (JD=2459739.9063889)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J215124.38+083929.2

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/ZTF22aanyfjl

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2022-06-09 09:45:12.001
Flux: 20.869 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2022-06-07 10:46:48
Limiting flux: 20.6799 ABMag
Filter: r-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/2022mnu