TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 159791 [ 2022TNSTR2772....1A ]

Date Received (UTC): 2022-09-25 19:10:42
Date made public:
Sender: ANTARES_bot
Reporting Group: ANTARES     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

Patrick Aleo (UIUC), Chien-Hsiu Lee (NSF's NOIRLab), Konstantin Malanchev (UIUC), Thomas Matheson (NSF's NOIRLab), Gautham Narayan (UIUC), Abhijit Saha (NSF's NOIRLab), Carlos Scheidegger (U. Arizona), Adam Scott (NSF's NOIRLab), Monika Soraisam (UIUC), Carl Stubens (NSF's NOIRLab), Nicholas Wolf (NSF's NOIRLab) report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2022vwt
Discoverer internal name: ZTF22abgksmu
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 01:06:11.107 (16.546281171134) DEC = +29:50:17.17 (29.838101590533)
Discovery date: 2022-09-25 08:33:46.656 (JD=2459847.856794)


Remarks: Supernova candidate identified by the ANTARES anomaly detection filter. See locus info at: https://antares.noirlab.edu/loci/ANT2022q17szfiybu1i

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2022-09-25 08:33:46.656
Flux: 20.7865 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2022-09-19 07:48:56
Limiting flux: 20.6872 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/2022vwt