TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 43712 [ 2019TNSTR1472....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2019-08-11 14:17:35
Date made public:
Sender: ZTF_AMPEL_NEW
Reporting Group: ZTF     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

J. Nordin, V. Brinnel, M. Giomi, J. van Santen (HU Berlin), A. Gal-Yam, O. Yaron, S. Schulze (Weizmann) on behalf of ZTF report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.

IAU Designation: AT 2019nfe
Discoverer internal name: ZTF19abpfnyg
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 01:54:07.890 (28.532877033333) DEC = -20:27:01.45 (-20.450401833333)
Discovery date: 2019-08-11 11:02:03.000 (JD=2458706.9597569)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2019-08-11 11:02:03.000
Flux: 19.72 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2019-08-03 11:34:18
Limiting flux: 19.6811 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin


Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2019nfe