TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 62025 [ 2020TNSTR.518....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-02-16 13:23:27
Date made public:
Sender: ZTF_AMPEL_NEW
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 2020crx
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aaodjcm
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 14:40:40.679 (220.1694938) DEC = -06:13:18.36 (-6.2217667333333)
Discovery date: 2020-02-06 12:39:22.000 (JD=2458886.027338)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-02-06 12:39:22.000
Flux: 20.69 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-02-06 12:35:34
Limiting flux: 19.7859 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/2020crx