TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 159898 [ 2022TNSTR2781....1M ]

Date Received (UTC): 2022-09-26 18:54:12
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

A. Munoz-Arancibia, F. Forster, F.E. Bauer, G. Pignata, 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 2022vzm
Discoverer internal name: ZTF22abikdky
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 01:32:28.959 (23.1206615) DEC = +08:25:46.26 (8.429517025)
Discovery date: 2022-09-21 08:38:51.000 (JD=2459843.8603125)


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/ZTF22abikdky

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2022-09-21 08:38:51.000
Flux: 20.9156 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2022-09-19 08:44:43
Limiting flux: 20.5632 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/2022vzm