TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 62617 [ 2020TNSTR.613....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-02-24 05:17:46
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 2020dfl
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aapynkj
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 07:36:20.387 (114.084944925) DEC = +63:41:47.35 (63.6964854)
Discovery date: 2020-02-03 04:03:29.000 (JD=2458882.6690856)


Remarks: Known SDSS and/or MILLIQUAS QSO/AGN. . See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria..

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-02-03 04:03:29.000
Flux: 19.49 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-02-02 04:21:31
Limiting flux: 20.0786 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/2020dfl