TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 159179 [ 2022TNSTR2709....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2022-09-20 21:00:12
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

A. Munoz-Arancibia, G. Pignata, F. Forster, F.E. Bauer, 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 2022vgs
Discoverer internal name: ZTF22abgdrje
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 21:43:05.595 (325.773310975) DEC = +23:29:56.37 (23.49899275)
Discovery date: 2022-09-18 05:37:46.001 (JD=2459840.7345602)

Potential host galaxy: SDSS J214305.62+232956.4

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/ZTF22abgdrje

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2022-09-18 05:37:46.001
Flux: 20.4248 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2022-09-16 03:46:32
Limiting flux: 20.5904 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/2022vgs