TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 59639 [ 2020TNSTR.235....1M ]
Date Received (UTC): 2020-01-23 20:28:22
Date made public:
Sender: Ismael Perez-Fournon
Reporting Group: SGLF Discovery Data Source: ZTF
R. Marques-Chaves (CAB), I. Perez-Fournon, F. Poidevin, C. Jimenez Angel, R. Shirley (IAC & ULL), S. Geier (GRANTECAN & IAC), Y. Shu (IoA), S. Rodney, J. Roberts-Pierel (Univ. of South Carolina), A. Bolton (NSF's OIR Lab), S. Chakrabarti, P. Craig, and B. Alamiri (RIT) report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.
IAU Designation: AT 2020apj
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aafmdyo
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 03:11:30.865 (47.878604) DEC = +11:27:02.37 (11.450658)
Discovery date: 2020-01-13 02:28:08.000 (JD=2458861.6028704)
Remarks: 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.noao.edu), and MARS (https://mars.lco.global) brokers.
Photometry
Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-01-13 02:28:08.000
Flux: 20.865 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin
Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-01-12 03:48:28
Limiting flux: 19.596 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/2020apj
Date Received (UTC): 2020-01-23 20:28:22
Date made public:
Sender: Ismael Perez-Fournon
Reporting Group: SGLF Discovery Data Source: ZTF
R. Marques-Chaves (CAB), I. Perez-Fournon, F. Poidevin, C. Jimenez Angel, R. Shirley (IAC & ULL), S. Geier (GRANTECAN & IAC), Y. Shu (IoA), S. Rodney, J. Roberts-Pierel (Univ. of South Carolina), A. Bolton (NSF's OIR Lab), S. Chakrabarti, P. Craig, and B. Alamiri (RIT) report/s the discovery of a new astronomical transient.
IAU Designation: AT 2020apj
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aafmdyo
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 03:11:30.865 (47.878604) DEC = +11:27:02.37 (11.450658)
Discovery date: 2020-01-13 02:28:08.000 (JD=2458861.6028704)
Remarks: 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.noao.edu), and MARS (https://mars.lco.global) brokers.
Photometry
Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-01-13 02:28:08.000
Flux: 20.865 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin
Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-01-12 03:48:28
Limiting flux: 19.596 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/2020apj

