TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 61633 [ 2020TNSTR.460....1M ]
Date Received (UTC): 2020-02-12 14:59:52
Date made public:
Sender: Ismael Perez-Fournon
Reporting Group: SGLF Discovery Data Source: ZTF
R. Marques-Chaves (CAB), I. Perez-Fournon, C. Jimenez Angel, F. Poidevin, 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 2020chx
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aamnuki
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 09:59:06.771 (149.778212) DEC = +46:19:54.75 (46.331875)
Discovery date: 2020-02-06 06:53:07.000 (JD=2458885.7868866)
Potential host galaxy: SDSS J095906.66+461956.1
Host redshift: 0.11424
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: 2020-02-06 06:53:07.000
Flux: 19.613 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin
Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-02-06 05:13:22
Limiting flux: 19.067 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/2020chx
Date Received (UTC): 2020-02-12 14:59:52
Date made public:
Sender: Ismael Perez-Fournon
Reporting Group: SGLF Discovery Data Source: ZTF
R. Marques-Chaves (CAB), I. Perez-Fournon, C. Jimenez Angel, F. Poidevin, 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 2020chx
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aamnuki
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 09:59:06.771 (149.778212) DEC = +46:19:54.75 (46.331875)
Discovery date: 2020-02-06 06:53:07.000 (JD=2458885.7868866)
Potential host galaxy: SDSS J095906.66+461956.1
Host redshift: 0.11424
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: 2020-02-06 06:53:07.000
Flux: 19.613 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin
Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-02-06 05:13:22
Limiting flux: 19.067 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/2020chx