TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 152342 [ 2022TNSTR1985....1S ]

Date Received (UTC): 2022-07-15 15:14:58
Date made public:
Sender: Ismael Perez-Fournon
Reporting Group: SGLF     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

R. Shirley (Univ. of Southampton), I. Perez-Fournon, C. Jimenez Angel, F. Poidevin (IAC & ULL), Z. Delgado-Gonzalez (ULL), 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: SN 2022ovn
Discoverer internal name: ZTF22aasfzzf
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 16:00:25.037 (240.104321) DEC = +49:23:30.92 (49.391922)
Discovery date: 2022-07-05 07:55:03.000 (JD=2459765.8298958)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J160024.93+492325.6
Host redshift: 0.0588104

Remarks: ZTF light curve: https://lasair-ztf.lsst.ac.uk/object/ZTF22aasfzzf/ 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: 2022-07-05 07:55:03.000
Flux: 20.714 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2022-07-05 06:51:11
Limiting flux: 20.796 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin


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