TNS Astronomical Transient Report No. 63120 [ 2020TNSTR.665....1N ]

Date Received (UTC): 2020-02-28 18:12:54
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 2020drj
Discoverer internal name: ZTF20aaqwejj
Coordinates (J2000): RA = 07:51:21.697 (117.84040545) DEC = +09:06:44.88 (9.11246645)
Discovery date: 2020-02-26 04:50:12.192 (JD=2458905.7015278)


Remarks: See arXiv:1904.05922 for selection criteria.

Photometry

Discovery (first detection):
Discovery date: 2020-02-26 04:50:12.192
Flux: 18.81 ABMag
Filter: r-ZTF
Instrument: ZTF-Cam
Telescope: Palomar 1.2m Oschin

Last non-detection:
Last non-detection date: 2020-02-24 06:53:27
Limiting flux: 20.451 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/2020drj