TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 156254 [ 2022TNSTR2492....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2022-08-28 22:35:05
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

A. Munoz-Arancibia, F.E. Bauer, G. Pignata, F. Forster, A. Mourao, L. Hernandez-Garcia, L. Galbany, J. Silva-Farfan, R. Hoshino, E. Camacho, 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 2022smr
Discoverer internal name: ZTF22abdqfyc
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 21:17:46.948 (319.4456175) DEC = +05:58:07.74 (5.9688158)
Discovery date: 2022-08-26 05:58:32.002 (JD=2459817.7489815)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J211746.85+055808.4

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/ZTF22abdqfyc

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2022-08-26 05:58:32.002
Flux: 20.7149 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2022-08-24 06:59:55
Limiting flux: 20.6509 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/2022smr