TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 58940 [ 2020TNSTR.153....1F ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-01-16 20:06:03
Date made public:
Sender: ALeRCE
Reporting Group: ALeRCE     Discovery Data Source: ZTF

F. Forster, G. Pignata, F.E. Bauer, J. Arredondo, G. Cabrera-Vives, R. Carrasco-Davis, P.A. Estevez, P. Huijse, E. Reyes, I. Reyes, P. Sanchez-Saez, C. Valenzuela, E. Castillo, D. Ruz-Mieres, D. Rodriguez-Mancini, F.E. Bauer, 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 2020abe
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aafzclr
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 08:29:55.196 (127.4799831) DEC = -13:09:54.88 (-13.1652439)
Discovery date: 2020-01-16 05:32:49.000 (JD=2458864.7311227)

Potential host galaxy: WISEA J082955.15-130955.0
Host redshift: 0.057513

Remarks: SN candidate classified by ALeRCE using the public ZTF stream. Discovery image and light curve in http://alerce.online/object/ZTF20aafzclr

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-01-16 05:32:49.000
Flux: 19.9773 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Remarks: Data provided by ZTF

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-01-13 07:33:40
Limiting flux: 19.0572 ABMag
Filter: r-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/2020abe