TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 62160 [ 2020TNSTR.555....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-02-19 04:16:29
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 2020cvq
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aalkxvg
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 08:02:00.378 (120.501576725) DEC = +65:17:28.95 (65.291374725)
Discovery date: 2020-02-02 04:50:26.000 (JD=2458881.7017014)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-02-02 04:50:26.000
Flux: 19.95 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-01-28 05:22:51
Limiting flux: 20.642 ABMag
Filter: g-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin


Details of the new object can be viewed here: https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2020cvq