TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 60193 [ 2020TNSTR.284....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-01-27 11:45:30
Date made public:
Sender: ZTF_AMPEL_COMPLETE
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 2020bbw
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aajbybp
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 12:26:20.187 (186.584110425) DEC = +55:29:19.21 (55.488670425)
Discovery date: 2020-01-27 10:43:05.000 (JD=2458875.9465856)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-01-27 10:43:05.000
Flux: 19.57 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-01-25 12:14:16
Limiting flux: 20.5642 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/2020bbw