TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 95436 [ 2021TNSTR..29....1P ]

Date Received (UTC): 2021-01-04 09:11:03
Date made public:
Sender: Ismael Perez-Fournon
Reporting Group: SGLF     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

I. Perez-Fournon, C. Jimenez Angel, F. Poidevin (IAC & ULL), R. Shirley (Univ. of Southampton), R. Marques-Chaves (Univ. of Geneva), S. Geier (GRANTECAN & IAC), Y. Shu (MPA), S. Rodney, J. Roberts-Pierel (Univ. of South Carolina), 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 2021dn
Discoverer internal name: ZTF21aaampui
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 08:19:09.695 (124.790396) DEC = +24:46:56.91 (24.782475)
Discovery date: 2021-01-03 08:10:12.000 (JD=2459217.8404167)

Potential host galaxy: IC 2282
Host redshift: 0.015514

Remarks: Separation of 87.5" (36.59" south and 79.47" west), 29.5 kpc, from IC 2282. Data were provided by the Zwicky Transient Facility (https://www.ztf.caltech.edu) and processed through the Lasair (https://lasair.roe.ac.uk), ALeRCE (https://alerce.online), ANTARES (https://antares.noirlab.edu), Fink (https://fink-broker.org/) and MARS (https://mars.lco.global) brokers.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2021-01-03 08:10:12.000
Flux: 19.724 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2021-01-02 10:43:44
Limiting flux: 19.47 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin


Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://sandbox.wis-tns.org/object/2021dn