TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 60092 [ 2020TNSTR.271....1P ]
Date Received (UTC): 2020-01-26 23:57:53
Date made public:
Sender: Ismael Perez-Fournon
Reporting Group: SGLF Discovery Data Source: ZTF
I. Perez-Fournon, C. Jimenez Angel, F. Poidevin, R. Shirley (IAC & ULL), R. Marques-Chaves (CAB), 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 2020bal
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aahfbjt
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 10:00:15.719 (150.065496) DEC = +55:09:51.65 (55.164347)
Discovery date: 2020-01-23 07:43:21.000 (JD=2458871.8217708)
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: 2020-01-23 07:43:21.000
Flux: 20.348 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin
Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-01-23 07:00:27
Limiting flux: 20.3 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/2020bal
Date Received (UTC): 2020-01-26 23:57:53
Date made public:
Sender: Ismael Perez-Fournon
Reporting Group: SGLF Discovery Data Source: ZTF
I. Perez-Fournon, C. Jimenez Angel, F. Poidevin, R. Shirley (IAC & ULL), R. Marques-Chaves (CAB), 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 2020bal
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aahfbjt
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 10:00:15.719 (150.065496) DEC = +55:09:51.65 (55.164347)
Discovery date: 2020-01-23 07:43:21.000 (JD=2458871.8217708)
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: 2020-01-23 07:43:21.000
Flux: 20.348 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin
Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-01-23 07:00:27
Limiting flux: 20.3 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/2020bal