TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 151869 [ 2022TNSTR1891....1D ]

Date Received (UTC): 2022-07-06 23:39:52
Date made public:
Sender: Ismael Perez-Fournon
Reporting Group: SGLF     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

Z. Delgado-Gonzalez (ULL), I. Perez-Fournon, C. Jimenez Angel, F. Poidevin (IAC & ULL), R. Shirley (Univ. of Southampton), R. Marques-Chaves (Univ. of Geneva), S. Geier (GRANTECAN & IAC), Y. Shu (MPA), S. Rodney (Univ. of South Carolina), J. Roberts-Pierel (STScI), A. Bolton (NSF's NOIRLab), S. Chakrabarti, P. Craig, and B. Alamiri (RIT) report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2022ojs
Discoverer internal name: ZTF22aarkhek
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 14:51:54.442 (222.976842) DEC = +32:20:23.51 (32.339864)
Discovery date: 2022-07-02 05:19:01.000 (JD=2459762.7215394)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J145154.38+322024.6
Host redshift: 0.0877066

Remarks: ZTF light curve: https://lasair-ztf.lsst.ac.uk/object/ZTF22aarkhek/ Data were provided by the Zwicky Transient Facility (https://www.ztf.caltech.edu) and processed through the Lasair (https://lasair-ztf.lsst.ac.uk), ALeRCE (https://alerce.online), Fink (https://fink-broker.org), ANTARES (https://antares.noirlab.edu), and MARS (https://mars.lco.global) brokers and our SGLF ZTF database and filters.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2022-07-02 05:19:01.000
Flux: 20.189 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2022-06-30 06:52:03
Limiting flux: 20.511 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin


Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2022ojs